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. on the intricate geology of these parts, it will lessen my 
regret at having wearied you so long with a statement of these 
somewhat dry details. 
It now only remains for me to allude to the courtesy of Mr. 
Batey, who has given me every facility in examining the strata 
during my visits to Vobster, and has kindly furnished me with 
those admirable sections brought before you this day in 
illustration. 
Summary of Proceedings for the Year 1881-82. 
Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN,— 
The anniversary meeting in the morning having brought the 
Club’s Proceedings to a close, it has hitherto been the custom to 
commence the new year’s work with a dinner in the evening. 
The amount of business having taxed the members’ strength, it 
is considered necessary that additional vigour should be supplied 
and fresh energy started by a gathering of a social kind. This 
perhaps is well. At this dinner the officers of the Club are 
pleased to renew their acquaintance with members whose faces 
and presence they have missed ever since the last anniversary 
dinner, and who no doubt have the equal gratification of 
becoming acquainted with some of the motive machinery of 
the Club hitherto to them unknown. This feeling probably 
attracted the numerous company which on the 18th of February 
met their Vice-President and sat down to a well-served dinner 
at the Pump Room Hotel. 
The Rev. Prebendary ScartH presided on this occasion, and 
before proposing the usual toasts referred to the early struggles 
of the Club, through the exertions of a few earnest men interested 
in the subject of Natural History and Archzxology. If a proof 
was wanted of the valuable work it was carrying on he pointed 
