EAST KENT 



NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



ANNUAL MEETING, 



MAY 15th, 1862. 



At the Annual Meeting of this Society, the following 

 Report was read and adopted. 



REPORT. 



In presenting this the Fourth Annual Report of the Society, 

 your Committee, would take the opportunity of expressing 

 their regret, that the past Session had not been so successful 

 as the previous, and would urge upon the Members the necessity 

 (if they would have the Society prosper) of a continuance of 

 their exertions in aid of the General Meeting of the Society. 

 During the past year two Excursions have been carried out ; 

 the first at Hythe on the 5th of July — when a Geological 

 Expedition (under the guidance of H. B. Mackeson, Esq.) 

 was successfully carried out. The Excursionists afterwards 

 assembling in the Town Hail, under the Presidency of the 

 Dean of Canterbury. 



The next Excursion took place on the 29th of August, 

 when an Expedition to Shottenden Mill and Perry Wood was 

 organized. Mr. Dowker explaining the Geology of the District, 

 the party assembling at Canterbury, under the Presidency of 

 the Dean. 



