10 
CHANGES IN Recent YEARS. 
The Society worked on in the even tenor of its way for years afte 
the death of Mr. Wonfor. Our friend, Mr. Lomax, undertook the 
duties of Scientific Secretary, and continued to fulfil them until the 
pressure of other work prevented his being able to give that 
attention to the duties of the office which their importance demanded, 
and he was obliged to resign, the Society appointing Mr. Pankhurst 
in his place on the 14th January, 1886, and the latter gentleman, 
not feeling satisfied with the working and condition of the Society, 
gave us such a shaking up as we have not had for years past, 
and we now stand before the public as the Brighton and Sussex 
Natural History and Philosophical Society. Owing to the energy of our 
new Scientific Secretary we have enrolled a large contingent of 
members in the town of Hove, and there has been a kind of 
understanding that the Society should endeavour, as far as_ possible, 
to deliver papers atthe Hove Town Hall, in the room which the 
Chairman of Commissioners, Mr. J. W. Howlett, has so kindly placed 
at our disposal. It will be the duty of your Council to see that this 
understanding is loyally carried out, and I venture to hope that some 
of our new members at Hove will assist us in this matter by pre- 
paring papers which cannot only be read at Hove, but also at our place 
of meeting here, especially as the scope of the Society has been enlarged 
so as to let in almost all subjects of general interest except controversial 
theology and politics. I cannot refrain from calling your attention to 
the very valuable and continuous services rendered to this Society 
by Mr. J. Colbatch Clark. During the whole of the period over which 
Ihave been running Mr. Clark has acted as our Business Secretary, 
aad how well and faithfully he has discharged his duties our reports 
will show. He has kept all our business affairs in perfect order, 
and, best of all, has not only not allowed us to get into debt, 
but has husbanded a nice little balance for us to enable us to 
meet any little needs which the Society is not unlikely to have. It 
is a pleasure to remember that these services have not been altogether 
unrecognised by the Society, for on the 8th February, 1872, it did 
itself the honour of presenting to Mr. Clark, through the late Mr. 
Hollis, its then President, a clock. In making the presentation the 
President laid particular stress upon the fact that Mr. Clark had for 
so many years then past, made such admirable arrangements for the 
annual excursions, and which had afforded very great satisfaction to 
all who had attended them. The clock bore an inscription stating 
that it had been presented by the members as a mark of their esteem 
and of their gratitude for Mr. Clark’s services. I have extracted 
from the reports the titles of all the papers that have been read 
before the Society during the last 20 years, and I find that they 
amount to she very respectable number of 189. Out of these geology 
takes the first place, there having been 38 papers on geological 
subjects ; next comes botany with 32, microscopy 15, and anatomy 11. 
Then follows a descending scale, dealing with various subjects in 
Natural History. Of these papers the late Mr. Wonfor contributed 35,and 
when it is remembered that his life only covered half the period with 
which I am dealing it will be seen how laboriously Mr. Wonfor worked 
