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Members the necessity of carefully attending to the direc- 

 tions for book circulcation, and facilitating it as much as 

 possible by giving notice to the Secretary of any Book 

 they would not wish to receive. ^ 



The following periodicals have been circulated by the 

 Society : — The Naturalist, the Geologist, the Zoologist, the 

 Phytologist, the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 

 the Quarterly Journal of the proceedings of the Limiaean 

 Society, the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, the 

 Natural History Eeview. 



From the Society possessing no Museum of its own, no 

 progress has yet been made towards collecting specimens 

 of Natural History ; but your Committee hope that the 

 trustees and public interested in our local museums will 

 avail themselves of the aid of this Society in collecting 

 desiderata for their respective Museums, and in arranging 

 and classifying the objects, so as to render them not only 

 interesting but instructive. 



Your Committee hope tliat the labours of the Local Meet- 

 ings may be more systematised, so that the Flora and Fauna 

 of their respective neighbourhoods may be thoroughly 

 explored. 



The First General Meeting of the Society took place 

 at the Guildhall Concert Eoom, at Canterbury, on 

 Thursday, the 8th day of April, 1858, Major W. A. 

 Mimn in the chair ; on which occasion Captain C. J. Cox, 

 F.B.S., F.E.S., delivered the introductory address. An 

 interesting collection of objects connected with Natural 

 History was exhibited by Eev. F. F. Scott, Messrs. J. T. 

 Hillier, J. llcid, Captain Cox, E. F. S. Header, G. Dowker, 



