PREFACE 
Tue Lectures to the Society have been better attended 
during the past year than for some time, and our best thanks’ 
are due to those who have been so kind as to give up some 
of their time to come and talk to us. 
The Excursions have been as popular as ever, and a great 
deal of good work has been done on them. 
The Microscope presented last year has been used by the 
section started to'use it, and also by others working at Geology. 
‘It can be used any Wednesday in the Museum between twelve 
and one o’clock. 
During the year Mr. Baker resigned the office of Treasurer, 
which he has held for many years. At a meeting of the Society 
a unanimous vote was passed, thanking him for all the time and 
labour he has spent in keeping the accounts. At the same 
meeting Mr. Towers was elected to the vacant office. 
Another loss we have to deplore is that of Mr. Menneer. 
The late President of the Ornithological Section has not been 
With us for very long, but the spirit of enthusiasm and keenness 
‘which was instilled into his section under his fostering care 
will, it is to be hoped, remain. We wish him all success in his 
new work, and hope that the country round him will teem with 
the bird life which he so much enjoys. 
| In the list of working members the end of the year shows 
many sad gaps. G, B, Allen, the keen Secretary of the 
Archaeological Section, has gone; Lowther and Gardner have 
disappeared from the Botanical Section; Nicholls, A. M, Stuart, 
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