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the Balance Sheet, which showed an amount of £3 ros. 11d. 
in favour of the Society. <A report of the proceedings of the 
past year followed, of which we give a summary. 
Hight evening Meetings and three” Field Days had been 
held. At one of the former a specimen of Dezopeia pulchella, 
the Crimson Speckled moth, was shown on the setting board, 
captured by T. H. Briggs, Esq., in the immediate neighbour- 
hood of Folkestone. 
Papers had been read on the following subjects : 
The Geology of the Locality . HH. B. Macxeson, F.G:S. 
On Mammalian Skulls... . Rev. E. LAncpon, F.G.S. 
On Sticklebacks . . . . . C. E. FrrzGerartp, M.D. 
Land Shells . . . . . . Rey. E. Lanepon, F.G.S. 
Tour in Shetland . . . Rev. C. L. Actanp, M.A. 
Local Rare Plants, read for . Mrs. FitzGERALp. 
Natural Selection . . Rey. C. L. Actanp, M.A. 
A series of Mammalian Skulls had been presented to the 
Society, by the Rev E. Langdon. A list of Folkestone Lepi- 
doptera, by H. G. Knaggs, M.D., F.L.S., had.been published 
by the Society. 
A series of Public Lectures, had been commenced, and a 
class formed for instruction in Botany. 
C. H. Dashwood, Esq., F.Z.S., then read a paper on the 
MiGRATION OF Birps, prefaced by special remarks on the 
structure of the wing, and this was followed by a paper on 
PERUVIAN ANTIQUITIES, by the Rev. C. L. Acland, illus- 
trated by a collection lately brought shad an ancient burial 
2 ead in Peru. 
Thursday, March 3rd, 
CONVERSAZIONE at the Town Hall. The following Paper 
was read by the Secretary : 
_ON PRIMROSES AND THEIR FERTILIZATION. 
A Primrose by the river’s brim, 
A yellow primrose was to him, 
"Twas that and nothing more. 
I have chosen this quotation simply because it is not all. 
suitable for the object we have in hand, nor to be taken as a. 
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