EAST KENT 

 NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



REPORT. 



The Comnuttee in presenting tlieir 7th Annual Report, 

 have again to congratulate the Members on the improved 

 position of the Society, as although their cash balance is not 

 so large as last year, there has been a great increase in the 

 number of members, and several valuable additions to the 

 Library. The Treasurer has a net balance in hand of 

 £6 18s. 4d., after paying all accounts to the end of the past 

 year. 



We have since the last annual meeting received an ac- 

 cession of forty-six new members, and during the same time 

 we have lost by death and resignation 8, leaving a net gain to 

 the Society of thirty-eight, among whom your Connnittee are 

 proud to recognize several earnest workers in the different 

 branches of Natural History. 



The first meeting of the Society was held on the 23rd of 

 February in Saint George's llall, where a Lecture was deliv- 

 ered by II. W. Bates, Esq., on the River Amazons and the 

 Natural History of the Central District of South America. 

 The Lecture was illustrated with a large map of the course 



