
5 
HON. SECRETARIES’ REPORT. 

In accordance with the usual custom, your Committee 
have pleasure in presenting the Members with a report of 
the work that has been done during the past year. 
It is now thirty-one years since the Society was 
founded by Charles Kingsley, and your Committee are 
pleased to report that at the present time it is numerically 
stronger than at any previous period of its existence. 
g1 new Members have joined the Society during the 
past year; and although we have lost by deaths and 
removals 61, the membership shews there has been a nett 
gain of 30, making a grand total of 954, as follows :— 
Honorary Members - - - 28 
Corresponding Members - - 25 
Ordinary Members - - ~alt) GOL 
Total - eee 
As will be seen by the Balance Sheet, the finances of 
the Society are in a satisfactory condition, there being a 
profit balance in hand of £26 14s. 4d. This is all the more 
gratifying, as, in addition to the usual expenditure, your 
Committee have contributed towards the new office and 
workshop for Mr. Newstead Twenty Guineas, and to the 
Exhibition of Crafts Five Pounds. 
The attendance of Members at the Summer Excursions 
and Field Meetings, as well as at the General and Sectional 
Meetings held during the Winter months, has been quite 
up to if not above the average. 
Your Committee have met twelve times during the 
year for the transaction of the Society’s business; but here 
there is room for improvement on the part of some 
Members in attending more regularly. 
There were fourteen Excursions and Field Meetings 
held during the Summer months, as follows :— 
I, 
Plemstall and Mickle Trafford .......... ..s00. 005: May 15th 
St. Mary’s Church (within-the-Walls) and The Castle.. ,, 22nd 
ETache Hye 4 Oe cusssies's s. Sebel oars ds Sastre 9» 30th 
Helsby Hill and Quarries...........sceeeeseeees . June sth 
Glyn Ceiriog (Annual Excursion) ...........c0e0008 » 12th 
Ball’s Knolls, Mollington Meadows ........ ......- 
Kinnerton (including the Paik & Gardens of Kinnerton 
OC GE) ipl oa ae ETN =. oo sana enter ee renters cies 5 27th 
Burton Point (Gardens of A. K, Bulley, Esq., Ness), 
and the Denhall Foreshore ....... seeeee July 4th 
paehall and- Bacon sci lies) Wdaeedbnlokidale cccces 5) Oth 
Eaton Gardens ............- Ao Odean Patelareinieversee ty nk 7A 
The Meadows to Heron Bridge ......... i Liyang Est 
wie vessoevs 5 
Messrs. Dicksons’ Nurseries at Newton and Upton....September 4th 
Port Sunlight, near Birkenhead ......-...e0sseeeees “; 18th 
Saint John’s Church and Priory, Chester..........+- ” 25th 
Notre.—An Excursion to Delamere Forest and Meres was arranged 
to take place on July 24th, but was postponed owing to bad 
weather. 
