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it has been found that by taking our caterers with us we have 
fared better than when trusting to those at a distance, often in 
remote localities, 
The Thursday Evening Walks were continued during the 
past year, and most of the old localities were visited, and it 
is to be hoped that Members will still cultivate amongst 
themselves a further acquaintance with the Fauna and Flora 
of the immediate neighbourhood. 
The Annual Conversazione was held October the 4th, in 
the Town Hall, kindly lent for the occasion by the Mayor 
(W. Farisu, Esq.) The Conversazione was one of peculiar 
interest, and, as usual, well attended. We were fortunate in 
having addresses from our President (Professor T. McKEnny 
Hucues), also from the Rev. W. S. Symonps, and other 
distinguished visitors. On this occasion, too, the Kingsley 
Memorial Medal and Prize were, for the first time, publicly 
awarded, and we all listened with especial pleasure to our 
President’s gracious and befitting words when presenting to 
Joun Pricz, Esq., M.A., the well-earned Kingsley Medal, by 
which we hope to commemorate earnest and original research 
in the fields of nature. For the Kingsley Memorial Prize there 
were six competitors, all with much of merit in their several 
collections, though the two best were from Miss H. Suiry and 
Mr. E. W. Oxett. These were considered so equal that the 
prize was divided. 
In the room devoted to the Microscopes there was much 
of interest, and a great variety of living organisms were 
shown, as well as slides with prepared objects; and, in this 
department, we beg to acknowledge the assistance we received 
from the Liverpool Microscopical and Wrexham Societies, also 
from the Rey. J. E. Vize, of Forden, who came over purposely 
to show his series of British Micro-fungi. We must here thank 
Caprain Bromrienp, Mr. James Rowtanp, Mr. Ruppy, and 
many others, for their valuable contributions, which added not 
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