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HON. SCIENTIFIC SECRETARY’S REPORT. 

ON again addressing the Members of our Society as your 
Scientific Secretary, I feel that, after so many years, there is 
not much that I can add to what has been already said. The 
Society has good and efficient General Secretaries who keep 
the Members well informed as to what is being done. 
The most important scientific event during the year has 
been the publishing of the list of Zepzdopiera by Mr. George 
O. Day, assisted by others of our Members. This work has 
been very favourably received ; and although not a Book that 
is intended for general reading, it will prove one of those useful 
Books that will have to be continually in the hands of those 
who take an interest in the subject. The price at which it is 
sold ought to place it within the reach of all our Members. 
The Society will be doing useful work as long as it continues 
to publish lists of what comes immediately under its own 
observation. 
Our Curator (Mr. Newstead) is still at work for the RAY 
SocIEeTy in completing his Monograph on the Coccide, which 
is a work that reflects great credit on himself, and in a lesser 
degree on the Society that can number him amongst its 
Members. 
The Excursions and Lectures are well attended, and if we 
are to judge by numbers, the Society has never been in a more 
flourishing condition ; this, to a certain extent, is due to our 
Presidents, who have thrown their whole heart and soul into 
stimulating the Members in the pursuit of scientific enquiry. 
This keeping alive of mental activity is one of the uses for 
which such Societies as ours exist ; and although athletics are 
at the present day much in evidence, still we must always 
remember that the object of the ‘‘corfus sanum’’ is the 
“< mens sana,’ and that the higher part of man’s nature must 
not be entirely neglected in order to cultivate physical 
prowess. 
HENRY STOLTERFOTH, 
Scientific Secretary. 

