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given the Society the free use of the room for meetings and 
lectures. Up to the present time there has been no falling off 
in the number of Visitors to the Museum. It is hardly 
necessary for your Committee to say that all this has involved 
a consiccrable outlay from the funds of the Society, in addition 
to the aid granted by the Corporation, and they have, as the 
members are mostly aware issued an appeal in the hope of 
receiving contributions in aid of the formation of a Museum 
Fund. They earnestly hope that the appeal will meet with a 
response though as yet they have been disappointed at the 
small amount subscribed. 
They would also remind the members that they would 
confer a benefit on the Society by purchasing the publications 
—a large stock of the Quarterly Journals, and the List of 
Butterflies and Moths remaining on hand, thus causing 
a serious deficiency in the funds. 
The Class formed last winter for instruction in Botany has 
been resumed this session, and has been well attended. In 
addition, another class has been formed for conversational 
lectures in Geology, and this too musters a goodly number of 
students. 
A Library in connection with the Society is in course of 
formation, and your Committee will be happy to receive 
donations towards it either in books or money. 
There is also kept at the Museum an album for the insertion 
of notes on any occurrence in the neighbourhood which is 
likely to prove of interest to the members of the Society. 
There is one circumstance, however, which your Committee 
have great occasion to regret, and their feelings will 
undoubtedly be shared by all the members—the departure 
from Folkestone of the Rev. C. L. AcLAND, who has hitherto 
been, they may almost say, the mainstay of the Society. Itis 
mainly through his endeavours that the Society has become 
so flourishing, and that the Museum has been placed in its 
present state, and they greatly fear that a long time will elapse 
before the vacancy caused by his departure can be filled. 
The Balance Sheet of the Treasurer forthe year 1870 is 
before you, from which it will be seen that for the first time in 
the history of the Society there is a deficit; the full extent of this 
however does not appear, as there are several outstanding 
accounts.—(See p. 6.) 
