FOLKESTONE 
Hatural History Society. 
FROCEEDINGS FOR THE YEAR 1894. 
ELEVENTH SERIES. 
JANUARY 16TH, 1894. 
This was really the Annual Meeting for the previous year, which 
it had been found impossible to hold in December. The attendance 
was small. H. G. Knaggs, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., was elected a 
member. Dr. T. Hastes. the President, was in the chair, and his. 
address took the form of a paper on 
THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE SOCIETY. 
Five and twenty years ago last spring, in the committee room of 
the Town Hall, Mr. Ullyett, who had been Secretary to a Natural 
History Society before he came to Folkestone, proposed to a meeting 
called together for the purpose that a society be formed in the town 
for the study of natural history, to be called the Folkestone Natural 
History Society. This resolution was seconded by Mr. Kennett 
and carried. Dr. FitzGerald was elected president, and Mr. Ullyett. 
secretary and treasurer at the same meeting, and that is the history 
of the birthday of a society which is to-night holding its 27th annual 
meeting. Twenty-five members joined that evening, and it was 
arranged to have a field day on the first Saturday in every month, 
but the first was on April 15th, Wednesday in Easter week, instead. 
of on Saturday. Mr. Ullyett read a paper to the members assembled 
at No. 2 Tower, overlooking the Warren, on “Local Geology,” 
which I have here. It was the first of a very long series of charm- 
ing papers on all branches of natural history, which our secretary 
has indefatigably provided in winter and summer, indoors and out 
