E E P E T 



FOR THE YEAR 185 8. 



)OUR Committee have great pleasure and satisfaction 

 in presenting to your notice the first Report of 

 the affairs and proceedings of the Society. 



The Report of the Society, and its progress during this 

 first year of its existence, may be summed up under the 

 following heads : — 



First, your Committee congratulate the Society on the 

 steady increase of its Members, which now reach the 

 number of 163. 



Your Committee have endeavoured to cany out the 

 objects of the Society, by holding Meetings at the various 

 towns in the district, hereafter to be mentioned, which 

 Meetings have been attended with great success. 



They have further promoted the usefulness of the 

 Society, by electing several Associates and Corresponding 

 Members. 



The circulation of journals connected with Natural 

 History has been attended with partial success ; but 

 owing to the large increase of its Members since the 

 commencement of the society, the circulation has been 

 much retarded. Your Committee would here urge on the 



