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the Members and their friends on two occasions to visit 

 his fine collections and for the hospitality they received. 



The Balance-Sheet shows that the financial condition of 

 the Club is satisfactory. 



In consequence of the Museum having outgrown the 

 accommodation so kindly given by Mrs. Ellis at North End, 

 your Committee have stored the specimens until sufficient 

 funds are forthcoming to enable them to rent suitable 

 rooms. 



Your thanks are due to Mrs. Ellis for her generosity in 

 having allowed the Museum to be at her house, there 

 being no doubt that but for this assistance it could not 

 have attained its present dimensions. The appeal to 

 Members for a Eent Guarantee Fund has been well res- 

 ponded to, but a sufficient sum is not yet subscribed to 

 enable your Committee to provide the necessary accommo- 

 dation. 



For the last thi'ee years some few of the members have 

 made systematic notes on the appearance of birds and the 

 occurrence and times of flowering of plants, &c., within a 

 three mile radius of our Museum, a list of which observa- 

 tions will be found at the end of this Eeport. In a neigh- 

 bourhood like Hampstead, where the open spaces are 

 being so rapidly covered, notes of this kind will become 

 valuable, as it has been observed that many species of 

 plants which floiu-ished here a few years ago have dis- 

 appeared. The recent drainage of the Heath has caused 

 the extinction of a great manj' plants. Your Committee 

 woiild urge Members to take notes of the occurrence and 

 times of flowering of plants in our neighbourhood and com- 

 municate them to the Club, and thus help to complete the 

 small list which has ah'eady been made out. 



Your Committee have to announce some changes in the 

 officers of the Club. Mr. Wm. Boulting, L.E.C.P., who 

 has so ably presided at our meetings for two years, and 

 who has devoted so much of his valuable time to the affairs 

 of the Club, retires from the presidential chair. 



Your Committee propose for election Mr. Charles A. 

 Watkins as President, and Mr. F. W. Eudler, F.G.S., as 

 Vice-President, and they hoj)e the list of Officers and 

 Members of Committee ttlU meet with your approval. 



Your thanks are due to the following gentlemen who 

 retire from the Committee — Mr. F. Haines, F.S.A., Mr. 

 M. Moir, and Mr. F. H. Haines. 



