HON. SECRETARIES’ REPORT. 

Your Committee have a special pleasure in presenting 
this, the Thirty-third Annual Report. For the first time 
in the history of the Society, the membership at the 
Annual General Meeting is over a thousand strong. 
During the past year 148 new Members have joined the 
Society, and although we have lost by deaths, removals, 
and resignations, 108, there has been a nett increase of 40, 
which brings the full number at present to 1,011. 
The Balance Sheet will shew that the finances of the 
Society are in a satisfactory condition ; for although we have 
had to meet an extraordinary expenditure of £37 4s. 3d., 
in consequence of our publication of a “‘ List of Lepidoptera 
of the District,” by Mr. GEorGE Day and others, the small 
adverse balance, which the Treasurer will report, is very 
little more than it was at the commencement of the past 
year. 
Rather fewer Excursions and Field Meetings than 
usual have taken place during the past year, but this has 
been more than counter-balanced by the largely increased 
numbers at the Lectures and Sectional Meetings during 
the Winter Session. 
It is a great pleasure to your Committee to mark this 
increase, shewing as it does a growth of interest in the 
work of the Society, which is the best pledge of its stability 
and growing usefulness. 
Since the Grosvenor Museum was erected, eighteen 
years ago, it has been the scene of the Society's Annual 
Conversazione, but for many years the accommodation has 
been felt to be too restricted. This year an old custom was 
reverted to, and the Conversazione was once again held in 
the Town Hall. The change proved to be more than 
justified, not only by the largely-increased attendance, but 
by the greater convenience and comfort afforded to all. 
The Excursions and Field Meetings held during the 
Summer were as follows :— 
1903. 
Bache Hall Gardens and Pinetum .......ce0eeeeeee May 2oth 
The Vale of Gresford and the Rofts ..... Saeie Seteteiiets ay reel 
Delamere Forestand (MereSmgesiade skieeler es vlewas <iee > June t1oth 
Dr. Mules’ Gardens at the Old Pamir, Gresford . 
Rhuddlan, Dyserth, Gwaenysgor, and Meliden 
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