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meetings durbg the year, and the improved position of the 

 Society generally ; and again urging on members the utility 

 and necessity of each member noting carefully the observations 

 that fall in his way of the Natural History of his own im- 

 mediate neighboui'hood, or of any part of the county where he 

 may be sojourning, as it is by a number of separate obsei-va- 

 tions, apparently trivial in themselves, that many of the great 

 truths of the science have been established. With om* in- 

 creased number of members, spread over a space comprehend- 

 ing Dover, Deal, Sandwich, Ramsgate, Margate, Heme Bay, 

 Whitstable, Faversham, Sittingbourne, Tenterden, Ashford, 

 Hythe, and Folkestone, we should be in a position to make 

 out a complete Faima and Flora for East Kent, particularly 

 of the neighbourhood of the coast line — a task the Committee 

 hope for the cordial co-operation of the members in attempting. 



