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Rules for the management of the Library have been 
framed by your Committee, and it is to be hoped Members 
will now avail themselves of the Scientific Works within 
their reach, which we trust will form the nucleus of a larger 
Library of permanent reference. To read what others have 
done before us is not only a present interest, but a stimulus 
to further research. 
We come now to the more immediate work of the Society, 
which, for the sake of convenience, we will consider under three 
heads— : 
1. Tue Excursions during the summer months ; 
2. GENERAL LECTURES ; 
3. SecrionaL MEETINGS. 
There have been Five Frenp Excursions, when the fol- 
lowing places were visited :— 
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ni “TK 790-0770 Ee re Delamere Forest and Oulton Park. 
Pye bal (3) Lice 31 nee rE: Berwyn Mountains. 
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ae PO Ot, AOU ok, he oe brie wi Free Public Museum, Liverpool. 
The thanks of the Society are due to the LiverPoon 
Narvurauists’ Fierp Crus for a very pleasant day, and the kind 
way in which they made the arrangements for the comfort of 
our Members; but this notice would be incomplete unless we 
gave especial thanks to the Rev. H. H. Hicarns, for his very 
instructive Lecture in the Liverpool Free Museum, on the 
“Invertebrate Animals,” illustrating his subject by the speci- 
mens he had himself so admirably arranged; to the Curator, 
Mr. Moorr, F.Z.S., for his interesting Lecture on the “ Quad- 
rumana”’; and also to Mr. G. H. Morton, F.G.S., for his 
Lecture, on the same occasion, on the “‘ Traces of Glacial Action 
on the Rocks near Liverpool.” 
A Conversazioné was held in the Town Hall, on the 17th 
August, 1874, which was well attended by our Members, and 
gave a pleasant evening to very many not connected with 
our Society. The Committee thank the Mayor, W. Maysmor 
