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ANNUAL REPORT. 
One of the chief duties of a Society on the occasion of its 
Annual Meeting is the review of the work of the past year, and 
though, in the first instance, some few matters of business have 
to be gone into, still, as our professed aim is the advancement 
of Natural Science, we shall try to point out what progress has 
been made in furtherance of this object, and what hope the 
future holds out for enlarging our sphere of usefulness. 
This is our twelfth anniversary, and there are now on our 
books 612 Members. We have elected 32 Ordinary Members, 
and one Corresponding Member ; and have lost by death and 
removal 40 Ordinary Members, and, by death, one of the 
Honorary Members, T. Morrat, Esq., M.D., F.C.S., F.R.A. 
Next to the number of our Members comes the question 
of finance, and this will be placed before you by our Hon. 
Treasurer, Mr. Mitts, when we trust the accounts will be found 
satisfactory, and show that your Committee have expended the 
money entrusted to their care, with due consideration for the 
welfare of the Society. The accounts of the “Kingsley” and 
«‘Cross” Memorial Funds will also be placed before you. 
And now we come to two main points which your Com- 
mittee especially wish to bring before the Members of the 
Society. The first is the great extension of the Society’s use- 
fulness as a teaching body. Our Committee, under the Science 
and Art Department of South Kensington, has had seven classes 
in full operation during the past winter, viz. :— 
ELEMENTARY BOTANY .........++0+.++MR. J. D. SIDDALL. 
Mr. C. E. Stmpson, M.A. 
ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY .......... {Ma P. H. OKELL. 
ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY ........ ecceee-. MR. C. R. CowWApP. 
MAGNETISM AND ELECTRICITY ........MR. C. F. Fisu. 
MATHEMATICS Tigra, at-loxe cis] nicl cie clatter 
APPLIED MECHANICS....... ARO BCIE CIDE Mr. J. SMITH (deceased). 
Mr. F. GARSIDE. 
MACHINE CONSTRUCTION ..cecececees 
