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end of the past Session is now in hand, and will, it is hoped, 
be published during the Winter. With the Volume lately 
published a new departure was made: the practice for several 
years past has been to publish annually a bare report, balance 
sheet, list of members, &c., for gratuitous distribution among 
members, and at intervals a volume of Transactions, comprising 
the more valuable papers read before, and other work done by 
members of the Society, for which Volume a small charge was 
made. It was felt that the financial position of the Society 
allowed of a return to the original and more convenient 
practice of including each year’s Report and Transactions in 
one volume, and distributing this gratis among members. 
The election of President for the ensuing year took place 
at the April Meeting, when Mr. F. E. Lott was unanimously 
elected, Mr. P. B. Mason, to the general regret, declining re- 
election. 
Mr. T. C. Martin, one of the earliest members of the Society, 
and for many years the manager of its excursion programme, 
having left the town, your Committee recommend that, in 
recognition of his long-continued and valuable services, he be 
elected an Honorary Member. 
Your Committee regret that the activity of the Sections has 
not been so great as it has been in recent years. The Botan- 
ical Section has only held one meeting, while the meetings of 
the Photographic Section have been few and far between. In 
the former Section, however, good work has been done by 
individual members, notably by Mr. J. E. Nowers, among the 
Mosses and Characee, and the Photographic Section has 
given some excellent displays of Lantern Slides. 
The membership of the Society shews somewhat of a decline 
from the very high number which it had lately attained; this 
decrease is chiefly owing to an unusually large number of 
members having left the neighbourhood, and there is no reason 
to fear that the loss will be more than temporary. The present 
