he was ever ready to contribute Papers or Lectures in tlie several 

 Sections. Few who heard him will ever forget the pleasant and 

 humorous manner which so attracted his audience, and the in- 

 terest which his own enthusiasm, no less than his firm grasp of 

 the subject, helped to inspire. His varied knowledge and 

 practical wisdom made him an invaluable member of your 

 Committee, while his genial disposition and singleness of 

 purpose had greatly endeared him to all his colleagues. His 

 death at the early age of 25, leaves a gap in the Society which 

 it will be hard indeed to fill, but your Committee believe that 

 the memory of his own earnest work, and his own high 

 character, will ever live among those who knew him best (in 

 this Society), and will bear their fruit in the furtherance of the 

 aims to which so much of his short life was given, and in the 

 increasing prosperity of the Society which he so greatly loved, 

 and in whose service he laboured so untiringly. 



We have elected forty-three, and lost b}' death and removal 

 twenty-four. Ordinary Members. 



The year 1886 will mark a crisis in the existence of the 

 Society. Since the first formation of the Society we have had 

 no permanent home in which to place our collections. Now, in 

 the course of a few weeks, we shall have a Museum and 

 place of meeting such as few of us ever expected. Most of you 

 have seen the building now in course of erection It is proposed 

 that it shall be opened early in August There is still, we 

 regret to say, more than £1,500 to be collected before the 

 structure is paid for, but your Committee hope that every effort 

 will be made by our own Members, as well as other kind 

 friends, to clear oif this deficiency, so that we may enter our new 

 premises free of debt. We must alwaj-s remember that it was 

 the great generosity of His Grace the Duke of Westminster, 

 and other liberal subscribers, which enabled us to undertake a 

 building of such magnitude : a building not only adapted to 

 the various branches of study to be conducted under its roof, 

 but eminently ornamental to the City, and a legacy to future 

 Citizens who may wish to keep alive the love of Science and 

 Art. The work of the Contractor, Mk. Gabbutt, has been 

 carried out under the superintendence of our able Architect, 

 Mr. Lockwood, who has spared no pains to meet the varied 

 requirements for which the whole building is designed. The 



