ANNUAL REPORT, 1876-77, 
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Tue Committee have again to report an increase of Members, the 
number now amounting to 146. 
During the year the Society has sustained a severe loss in the 
death of its President, the late T. T. Grirriru, Esq. He was 
one of the founders of the Society, and had been its President 
from the commencement, and was never absent from its meetings 
till his last illness. 
At the Annual Meeting in October last, Epwarp WILLIAMs, 
Esq., M.D., was unanimously elected President. 
Only one excursion has been made during the year —namely, 
to Glyn Ceiriog, June 13th, 1876. The weather was favourable, and 
there was a numerous attendance of the Members and friends. 
The Committee hope to be able to make arrangements for one 
(possibly two) during the current year. 
The Annual Conversazioné was held in the Public Hall on the 
20th February last; and again the Committee have to thank 
Mr. SHEPHEARD, and the other friends of the Chester Society, 
who kindly attended and exhibited their microscopes. Much 
interest was shown in the Thermo-Cautery, a new French surgical 
instrument, exhibited by Dr. SrontErrotH. A compound pen- 
dulum apparatus was also shown, and the physical apparatus 
belonging to the Society was exhibited. The attendance was not 
so large as at the former Conversazioné, owing chiefly to the 
wretched state of the weather. 
It has been thought advisable, each year, to devote part of the 
funds of the Society to the purchase of apparatus adapted for the 
lecture table, as well as for research. This year thirty pounds 
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