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Your Committee wish, in conclusion, to place on record 
their deep sense of the loss which the Society has sustained 
by the resignation of its esteemed Curator (Mr. Robert 
Newstead), consequent upon his appointment to a Lecture- 
ship in the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. 
Of the long and devoted service which Mr. Newstead 
has rendered to the Society in general, it is impossible to 
speak adequately here. But the Committee and Officers of 
the Society feel that they may appropriately take this 
opportunity of expressing, personally and collectively, their 
own grateful sense of the immense help which he has been 
to them in the execution of their various duties ; and their 
appreciation of the unfailing cordiality, courtesy, and good 
feeling, which have marked all his relations with them, and 
have contributed so much to the efficiency and popularity 
of the Society’s work. 
It is a very great satisfaction and pleasure to them to 
express the hope that for some time to come Mr. Newstead 
may, as one of themselves, be able to place his experience 
and knowledge at the service of the Society. 
Mr. Alfred Newstead, who was for 7 years an Assistant 
in the Natural History Department of the Society’s Museum, 
has been appointed Curator of the Museums and Library; 
and, from your Committee’s knowledge of him, they feel 
confident he will successfully carry on the work so well 
begun by his brother. 
The following is a summary of the Excursions and 
Field Meetings; and also the Lectures and Sectional 
Meetings during the past year :— 
EXCURSIONS AND FIELD MEETINGS. 
1904. 
May 18th—Evening Meeting at the Grosvenor Museum. 
», 25th—The Lache Eye and Lache Lane. 
June 15th—Eaton Hall Gardens and the “ Serpentine.” 
», 29th—Annual Excursion to Glyn Ceiriog. 
July 14th—Delamere Forest and Meres. 
» 20th—Cefn Caves and Trefnant. 
», 27th—Bache Hall Gardens and Pinetum. 
Sep. 21st—Steam Mills, Boughton. 
