The Committee have the pleasure of laying their ninth 

 annual report before the members, and again find their chief 

 source of congratulation in the financial position of the Society, 

 as the present balance in hand is more than £9, which would 

 be greatly increased were all the outstanding subscriptions 

 paid up. Since the publication of the last report the Society 

 haa lost eleven members from various causes, and twenty- 

 eight now members have been elected, being a net gain of 

 seventeen to the Society. 



In consequence of an arrangement entered into with the 

 proprietor of the " Kentish Gazette," the Committee are 

 enabled to present to the members a more detailed account of 

 the proceedings of the Society than they have hitherto given. 



The Committee regret the compulsory omission of the 

 November meeting in the past year, but as none of the mem- 

 bers were at the time prepared with a paper, and they were 

 unable to procure a professional lecturer from London, it would 

 have been useless to call the meeting. One of the chief uses 

 of fixing the days of these evening meetings was to allow such 

 members as had anything to communicate to the Society to 

 give notice of their intention to the Secretary before the time 

 of meeting ; but the Committee fear that this convenience has 

 hardly been appreciated by the members, as a reference 

 to the report will show only three original papers during 

 the year, viz., one by G. Dowker, Esq., on tlie work 



