EAST KENT 



REPORT. 



In presenting their Eighth Annual Eeport the Committee 

 are glad to be able again to congratulate tiie members on the 

 condition of the Society, as although the increase in numbers 

 is not so great as last year from circumstances easily explained, 

 they have still a net balance in hand of more than six pounds, 

 exclusive of a few subscriptions since paid and a few still 

 unpaid. 



Since the last Annual Meeting the Society has lost five 

 members from various causes, and eleven new members have 

 been elected, leaving a net gain of six to the Society. 



The first meeting in the past year was held in the 

 Lecture-room of the Museum, at Canterbury, Major Cox in 

 tlie chair, on which occasion tlie Committee proposed the 

 alteration of the day of general meetings and excursions from 

 the last Tuesday to the last Thursday in the respective 

 months of February, May, August, and November, which 

 was adopted by the meeting. After the business the Rev. J, 

 h Reade, of Rishop«boiirne, road a highly interesting paper 



