THE 
SECOND ANNUAL MEETING 
The Second Annual Meeting was held at the Commercial 
Hall on the evening of Tuesday, January 18th, 1870. 
On the table were collections of 
Folkestone Fossils, 
Land and Freshwater Shells, 
Marine Shells, 
Madrepores, 
Dried Plants, 
lent by the SECRETARY; also Nests of Weaver Birds, lent by 
Miss MaLianparne ; Eggs and Fossils, lent by Mr. PLACE. 
The Presiprnt commenced the Business of the evening 
by reading the following 
ADDRESS :— 
Ladies and Gentlemen, 
It is with no ordinary feeling of gratification 
I address you this evening, on the occasion of our Second 
Annual Meeting; if I, in common with you all, hailed with 
pleasure the formation of a Society for the cultivation of 
Natural History; if I watched with pride its steady progress 
and increase for the first year, how much more pleasurable are 
my feelings when I look around to-night, and am enabled to 
congratulate you on having a Society, founded ona solid basis, 
consisting of 118 members, and so ably represented by the 
smiling and intelligent faces I see around me. We have had 
some very clever papers read during the course of the year, 
and an admirable example, which was nobly set by a lady 
member last year, has been repeated by two others of our fair 
“members, who have contributed very interesting papers on local 
Botany, and Domestic Birds, and if these were slightly imbued 
with an element of romance, which they tell me is quite inse- 
parable from the female character, surely this rather increased 
