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to our Honorary Curator, Mr. Srraman, and to Mr. Survusso.e, 
many of the specimens have been remounted and labelled, and 
our fossils present a very different appearance from what they 
did a short time since. Mr. A. O. Waker has made several 
additions to the local collections of Lepidoptera; and Dr. H. 
SrotrerForH has rearranged the collection of recent shells, 
putting them in such order as to be of use to anyone wishing to 
study the Mollusca. The Museum-room, however, is not felt to 
be satisfactory ; as in winter, even with occasional fires, it is so 
damp as to be injurious to the more delicate specimens. On 
this account your Committee have in contemplation the hiring of 
another room, to be used as a reading-room, and which, being 
constantly occupied, would serve better for the preservation of 
specimens affected by damp. 
The Lecture-room has been rearranged and a substantial 
platform erected, adding greatly to the comfort of the Lecturer, 
while the arrangement of the room has been such as to give a fair 
accommodation both for the General and Sectional Meetings, 
without disturbing the Museum as in former years. 
For the sake of convenience the more immediate work of the 
Society may be placed under the following heads :— 
1. Excursions during the summer months : 
2. Evenrinc WALKks; 
38. GENERAL MEETINGS; 
4. Sectionat Mrerincs. 
There have been Seven Field Excursions, when the following 
places were visited :— 
Way: Ot corecee perce = <ots sce. .czsesees Delamere Forest 
Us GED Peek Etenes ac sc 05s0-saenmens Prestatyn 
Fa 9 ULL ee a aciaw naka... <eeeee Haughmond Abbey 
July U8th............cccscseeeseeseeeeeee Meswell Hill 
August 9th ........::2:.0:ese) » . Hope Mounta'n 
AUOUSY OLBG: caategehoiess ncaa toe wees Corwen and Cynwyd 
September 19th .....0.......seseesccees Caerwys 
In spite of the prevailing unfavourable weather during the 
summer of 1877, our excursions were well attended, and rain and 
