ANNUAL REPORT. 



The Chester Society of Natural Science has now completed its 

 sixteenth year. Commencing in a tentative manner, it existed 

 for fifteen years without any fixed abode, and it was only after 

 our last Annual Meeting that we moved into the present beautiful 

 and commodious building. This move and the arrangement of 

 the Society's possessions, entailed a vast amount of labour on 

 the officials, so that if we were asked what particular work had 

 been achieved during the past year we should answer, — not 

 Natural History, but the fitting of ourselves into a new habitat 

 and learning how we could best adapt ourselves to the new 

 environment ; but, I think, you will find all has been done 

 carefully, and with comparatively small injury to the specimens. 



As the Grosvenor Museum building is managed by a special 

 Committee, and we as a Society are only one of three bodies 

 making use of, and supporting the whole Institution, we shall 

 do well in this Report to confine ourselves to the special object 

 that our Society has in view — to promote the study of the 

 Natural History of the District. As this is intimately connected 

 with the individuals who carry out the work, so the Report of 

 the Society must deal with what is done by its own Members. 



Your Committee have lost no Honorary Members during 

 the past year, and have added to their number the name of the 

 Rev. a. M. Norman, who has always been a good friend to the 

 Society. 



We have elected during the year seventy-eight Ordinary 

 Members, and have now on our books a total of 585 Members. 



The Chester School of Science is now incorporated with 

 the School of Art, and forms one body, and will in future be 

 known as " The Chester School of Science and Art." under a 



