Council Chamber. In some respects this was more convenient, 

 and the heat from the lamps less felt. The general exhibits 

 were quite up to the usual mark, and it is to be hoped that our 

 Members appreciated the extension of the exhibition to two 

 evenings, though, as a matter of course, this entailed much 

 extra work on the Committee. 



Our thanks are due most cordially to the late Mayor 

 (C. Brown, Esq.), for granting us the use of the Town Hall, 

 and for the kind assistance he has always given to our Society. 



During the past winter there have been seven General 

 Meetings, at which the following Lectures were given — 

 1885. 



-" The Chester Society of Natural Science and its Founder," by 



Dr. Waters. 

 -" Discovery of Stellar distances," by S. Okell, Esq., F.R.A.S. 



-"Further observations on the Silurian Rocks of N. Wales," by 



Prof. T. McKenny Hughes, F.S.A., President. 

 -" The Study of History," by H. R. Reichel, Esq., M.A. 



(Principal of University College, North Wales). 

 -" The relation of Alchemy to Modern Chemistry," by J. J. 



DoBBiE, Esq., M.A., D.Sc. (Prof, of Chemistry in U. C, 



North Wales). 

 -"The structure of Flowers," by R. W. Phillips, Esq., B.A., 



B.Sc. (Lecturer on Biology in U. C, North Wales). 

 -Annual Meeting. 



The subjects treated in these lectures have embraced a 

 large field, dealing with general topics as well as the more 

 minute particulars. They have been well attended and highly 

 useful. The Committee feel themselves deeply grateful to the 

 University College, Bangor, North AVales, for giving them an 

 opportunity of becoming acquainted with those who are now 

 carrying on the higher education in the Principality, and they 

 feel sure that under such teaching the cause of education in 

 Wales will prosper. 



The Sections into which our Society is divided have met as 

 follow — 



1885. Zoological Section. 



Nov. 5—" Hilbre Island and its Zoology," by Mr. C. F. Fish. 

 Dec. 17 — "Review of past year," by Mr. A. O. Walker, Chairtnan. 



