ANNUAL REPORT. 



Your Committee, in presenting their Annual Report, have 

 satisfaction in stating that the Society numbers 683 Members. 

 We have lost by death and removal 41. Amongst these we 

 mention with regret the death of our Honorary Member, 

 H. Bowman Bkady, Esq., F.R.S., &c., &c. He was known to 

 many of our Members, some of whom he incited to work at 

 that most interesting group of lowly forms, the Foraminifera, 

 with which group his name will always be associated in 

 connection with the " Challenger Report on the Deep-Sea 

 Soundings." 



We have within the last year added to our list 63 new 



Members. This points to the fact that our Society still holds 

 [its position, and affords to a large number of our fellow-citizens 

 [a centre of intellectual communication and recreation, which 

 [meets a want amongst those who are daily engaged in 



occupations which in themselves might become monotonous. 



Our Society opens to them the field of Nature with all its 

 L wonderful and hidden forces, whether they turn to the minute 

 [examination of the various species of Plants and Animals, or to 



the larger problems by which the world is shaped and governed. 

 ■ Steady and true work in any one branch is sure to increase 

 [intellectual power, while in the long run, there is no knowing 



how much it may help forward the sum of human knowledge. 

 ! Every district is the better for having in it those who take an 

 'interest in natural phenomena, and there are places all over the 



■world which have become famous by the work of some careful 

 [Naturalist, who leaves behind him a centre from which other 

 [work radiates. It is to encourage such work that our Society 

 .exists with other Societies of a kindred nature. 



