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of doors, to try and foster the love of nature, and to increase the 
knowledge of nature’s products and nature’s methods amongst all 
of us who were willing to listen and be taught. The seconé field 
day was on May 2nd, at the Canal, at Seab ook. The Rev. E. 
Langdon read a paper on ‘‘Our Freshwater Molluses,’’ also con- 
tained in this jourial. 
The first microscopical soirée was he'd at Dr. FitzGerald’s house 
on May 13th, when he red an interesting paper on ‘The Micro- 
scope,”’ and several microscopes and microscopical objects were 
exhibited. 
On June 6th, about forty members assembled near tiie Warren 
again, and the Rev. C. L. Acland read a most able paper on ‘“ The 
Fertilizat on of Orchids.” I remember that meeting, and the great 
interest that was shown in the subject, both by the reader of the 
paper and the members in general. 
On June 13th, at a committee meeting, it was arranged that the 
secretary should confer with the Town Clerk as to the best means to 
be adopted for obtaining the charge of the Folk stone collection of 
objects in natural history then existing, and at the same meeting 
a quarterly journal was proposed, and the Rev. C. L. Acland and 
the Rey. E. Langdon were appointed editors, but Mr. Acland 
resigned, and the secretary was appointed in his stead before the 
first number was issued. 
On November 20th, the subject of winter lectures was brought 
forward by the Rev. C. L. Acland, at a committee meeting. Ata 
meeting in December, the members were asked to assist in getting 
as many local names of plants and animals as possible. In January, 
1869, seven prizes of books, amounting in value to £5 15s. in all, 
‘were offered for collections of dried flowering plants, of insects 
excluding lepidoptera), and of fossils. 
In April, 1869, at the annual meéting after one year’s work, 60 
tembers were present. In June, 1869, Mr. Mackeson, of Hythe 
gave a lecture on “The Geology of the Warren,” and rerharked 
on the probability of coal existing at mo very great depth, a 
remark that is very interesting to us who know. that within 
about two miles it has been recently verified. The quarterly 
magazine was discontinued in October, 1869. In November, an 
evening class for botany was arranged, and a series of public lectures 
under the auspices of the society, commenced in January, 1870, 
when the president took the *‘ Physiology of Respiration”’ as his 
subject for the first lecture. At the second annual meeting about 
70 members were present. | 
The care of the Museum in High Street seems to have been taken 
in hand by the society in 1870, and it was formerly opened on 
October 4th, by the Mayor. In the same month, classes in botany 
and géology were formed. Early in 1871, the Rev. C. L. Acland 
