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SECRETARY’S REPORT. 
The number of members on the roll is 95, of whom 76 paid their 
subscriptions for the year. 
The number of meetings during 1890 was five, the smallest num- 
ber we have ever recorded during the existence of the Society. 
The cause of this is solely the difficulty in obtaining papers from 
the members to be read at the meetings. The annual meeting 
took place in February, when the President gave his usual address 
on the progress of discovery during the preceding year. In March 
Mr. A. H. Ullyett gave an interesting lecture on ‘“‘ Minute Orean- 
isms,” illustrated by means of lantern slides. The lantern for the 
occasion was lent and manipulated by the Rev. T. G. Day. 
In April a special business meeting was called to clear up some 
misunderstanding which had arisen concerning the resignation of 
the Secretary at the previous annual meeting, most of the members 
apparently having understood that it was both partial and temporary. 
Explanations were given and it was left in the hands of the Com- 
mittee to settle. Ultimately the Secretary withdrew his resignation 
and Mr. A. H. Ullyett was appointed as Assistant Secretary. 
In May, Mr. C. Rosling, B.A., late of the Grammar School, gave 
a paper on ‘‘ Ants,” at which lantern slides were used. 
During the summer no field days were held as it had been 
found during the preceding summers that members were not 
sufficiently interested in them to attend. 
The winter session commenced in October with a Lantern 
Lecture by the secretary on ‘‘How Grear Britain BECAME AN 
Isuanp,” 
In November a very successful combined meeting of our Society 
and the Microscopical Society was held, from which the Secretary 
was absent through illness. It is desired here to record the 
thanks of the Society for the assistance then rendered by members 
of the “ Microscopical,” and to express a hope that such meetings 
will be often repeated. 
The attendance at the meetings has been good, but has 
consisted largely of non-members, whom however we are always 
glad to welcome. 
The balance sheet shows that we had at the close of the year a 
sum of £18 14s. 1d. in hand, £10 of which is half of the sum 
presented by Mrs. Rumsey to the Society before that lady left 
Folkestone. 
In conclusion, I can only express a strong hope and wish that 
the interest of members may be aroused to a further extent in 
matters connected with the Society, and that our meetings during 
the present year may be somewhat more successful both in the 
number of papers read and in attendance. 
