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of our younger Members, prizes to the amount of £5, to be 
competed for during the present year by those under sixteen 
years of age. <A notice of these prizes, with the regulations and 
other information, has been forwarded to all our Members, and 
it is to be hoped it will be read, and that the consideration 
which prompted our President will meet with the reward which 
he most desires—a development of early industry and accurate 
observation in the several branches of Natural History to which 
he especially directs attention. 
In accordance with the promise in last year’s Report, a 
second number of the Proceedings of the Society has been 
published. This contains many Papers on Natural History of 
local interest, and is sold at the small sum of 2/6. It is much 
hoped that Members will come forward and take copies, in 
order to defray the expense of publishing, which must otherwise 
fall on the funds of the Society. 
Owing to the liberality of the Gilchrist Trustees, Chester 
has for a second year had the privilege of a course of popular 
Science Lectures. These lectures, your Committee feel, are of 
great use in diffusing a taste for Natural Science, and we need no 
greater proof of their being appreciated, than the way in which 
the Town Hall (kindly lent by the Mayors, W. Fanisu, Esq., 
and L. Ginsert, Esq.) was filled on each occasion. 
The arrangements for this second course of lectures were 
similar to those made for the previous year. The following 
programme shows the various subjects treated :— 
Oct. 11—‘‘Microscopic Forms of Plant-Life,” ............... 
By Pror. W. C. WILLIAMSON, F.R.S. 
3, 25—‘‘ The Sun’s distance from the Earth”...........068+ By Pror. Coreg, M.A. 
Woy. a8——s° DHE SUN? cic. sovncuctecsavegnsasers By RicHARD A. Proctor, EsqQ., B.A. 
», 22—‘‘ Our earliest Ancestors in Britain”’............ses00 
By Pror. BoypD Dawkins, M.A., F.R.S. 
Dec. 6—‘“‘Insectivorous Plants and Plant-Digestion”...... 
By Pror. W. C. WILLIAMSON, F.R.S. 
20—‘‘A Piece of Limestone”..By Dr. W. B. CARPENTER, C.B., F.R.S.,F.G.S. 
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As your Committee had the management of the local 
expenses connected with these lectures, a statement of the 
