ANNUAL REPORT. 



In presenting the Seventeenth Annual Report of the Chester 

 Society of Natural Science, the Committee have the pleasure of 

 stating that the number of Members now on our list amounts 

 to 619. 



During the past year we have lost by death two Honorary 

 Members— John Price, Esq., M.A., and the Rev. W. S. 

 Symonds, F.G.S. Mr. Price was connected with our Society 

 from its foundation, and was one of the founders of a still older 

 Natural History Society, from which our present Society is an 

 outcome. His loss to our Society is great. He was held in 

 reverence by all who knew him, and his wonderful powers of 

 observation, his retentive memory, combined with his high 

 intellectual attainments, rendered whatever he brought before the 

 Society a source of dehght as well as profit. His Papers will be 

 treasured even by those who had not the privilege of hearing 

 them. As a Society we desire to record our deep respect and 

 gratitude to one who by his genial nature drew out the trust and 

 affection of old and young, while we hope to keep his memory 

 green by following in his footsteps, as accurate, painstaking, and 

 reverent students in the fields of nature. 



The Society has now occupied the Grosvenor Museum for 

 nearly two years, and has found the building admirably suited 

 to its requirements. The new premises have certainly added 

 immensely to the general comfort and to the efficiency of the 

 Society. A new Section was organised after our last Annual 

 Meeting -the Photographic Section. It has done good work 

 during the past year, and it numbers amongst its Members many 

 practical workers. This Section will be a source of strength to 

 the Society, for the wonderful advance made by amateurs in this 

 department must tell eveuLually on all scientific records. 



