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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8tu, 1904. 

Gnnual General Meeting. 

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 8ru, 1904. 

It is a source of no little gratification to your Council to be 
able to report that during this the s5oth year of the Society’s 
existence the Ordinary Meetings have been on the whole more 
largely attended perhaps than in any of the preceding years. 
The Library, which now numbers more than 2,500 volumes, and 
which on account of the rebuilding of the Public Library has 
been for some time practically closed to members, is now rein- 
stated in the Reference Library. The books have been thoroughly 
overhauled, and some 70 volumes of periodicals have been added 
to it, as well as many others. 
Owing to the retirement of Mr. Pankhurst from the 
Secretaryship, the duties of which he has performed for the last 
eighteen years, a small Committee is recommended to carry on 
the work. 
The Council is much indebted to Mr. Caush for going 
through several hundred microscopic slides and renovating them. 
The excursions which Mr. Davey so successfully conducted 
last year, but which circumstances obliged him to intermit, have 
already been resumed. 
Among the Members which the Society have lost by death 
during the past year it is fitting that mention be made of 
Mr. J. H. Browne, F.R.A.S., who was one of the oldest Members 
of the Society. 
The excursions have been as follows :— 
14th May. To Tilgate Forest and Balcombe. 
28th May. ,, Firle Park and Beacon. 
r1th June. ,, Ashdown Forest— Coleman’s Hatch — King’s 
Standing—Crowborough. 
