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several days; delightful weather on the grand North Coast of Anglesey, 
and very comfortable quarters made this a memorable event which those who 
participated ia it enjoyed greatly. The recent issue of Lord de Tabley’s 
“Flora of Cheshire,’’ although so long delayed in publication, is a most 
valuable contribution to the natural history of our district. There is a copy 
in the Society’s Library, and I very strongly recommend all who are interested 
in our local Flora to study it carefully. 
At the request of some of our Members who are interested in Art 
matters, a new Section has been added, which, with the Very Rev. the Dean 
and Mr. Schréder as its Chairman and Secretary, will doubtless add 
considerably to the Society’s usefulness. 
Mr. A. O. Walker having gone to reside in Kent, has resigned the chair- 
manship of the Zoological Section, and Dr. W. Henry Dobie has been elected 
in his place. Mr. Walker’s removal is in every way a great loss to us. It is 
hardly to be expected we shall have him often among us in future, and we 
can ill spare so thoroughly good a friend and scientific worker. 
I appeal with confidence to Members to bear in mind what I have said 
as to supporting the Society. It needs no words of mine to bear witness 
to the altogether beneficial nature of the work wisely conceived and 
enthusiastically started by its great founder, Charles Kingsley. Its career 
during thirty years has been socially and morally a benefit to all classes of 
society in Chester, and it is both an honour and a duty to us to be actively 
connected with it. 
J. D. SIDDALE: 

HON. SECRETARIES’ REPORT. 

Your Committee have met twelve times during the past 
year for the carrying on of the general business of the 
Society. The attendance at these Meetings has been above 
the average, and the Members generally have shewn a keen 
interest in all that concerns the welfare of the Society; 
and they have also proved to be very helpful to the various 
officers. 
The total membership of the Society,*up to the present 
time, is 808, and is made up as follows :— 
Honorary Members - : - 29 
Corresponding Members - - - 18 
Ordinary Members - . - - 761 
Total - - 808 

The number at the present time is thus higher than 
at any other period in the history of the Society. The 
membership has, during the past few years, made steady 
progress, a fact which we think is in favour of having local 
Presidents, who can always be with us to stimulate Mem- 
bers in carrying on the work of the Society. 
