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The Chairman said they must all have been very much 

 pleased by the exceedingly interesting remarks made by 

 Alderman Brent and Mr. Dowker, and now that they had 

 entered on a course of lectures he hoped they would bo per- 

 severed with, and that others equally interesting would be 

 given by other members of the Society. They did not come 

 together merely to look at pretty things, but to investigate 

 the wonders of nature wiiich the .Almighty had spread so 

 abundantly in this division of the county. 



Mr. Dowker remarked that at a former meeting of the 

 Society he suggested that something should be done towards 

 collecting fauna and flora of the ccmnty, and his idea was 

 that it could best be done by forming a committee of those 

 gentlemen who took a special interest in the matter. He 

 believed that if such a system were adopted they would 

 eventually get a mass of information which it would be 

 worth while to publish, and which would also be a credit to 

 the East Kent Natural History Society. 



Mr. LisFORD said they had been endeavouring to carry 

 out Mr. Dowker's idea for the last two months, but unfor- 

 tunately they could not find a gentleman to undertake the 

 botanical department. 



Some further discussion took place on the subject, but the 

 Chairman thought it was a matter which ought to be settled 

 in committee. 



The President then tendered the thanks of the meeting 

 to Messrs. Dowker and Brent, and said he was pleased to 

 find that the members of the Society at Dover were doing 

 so well. It was proposed to take some of the birds' nests 

 on the rocks in the course of a short time, and an excursion 

 in connection with the Society would take place during the 

 present month. 



The proceedings then terminated. 



