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The Committee in laying their tenth annual report before 

 the members have the pleasure of congratulating them on the 

 financial condition of the Society, the balance in hand being 

 £14 Is. 6d. 



Since the last report the Society has lost by resignation, 

 death, and various causes, sixteen members, and six new 

 members have been elected, leaving a nett deficiency of ten. 

 This loss is however, more apparent than real (as the financial 

 balance will show), being the result of a thorough revision 

 of the list of members, and the expunging several names 

 that had been retained by accident long after the members had 

 left. The annexed report, reprinted from the "Kentish 

 Gazette," contains an account of all the meetings of the year, 

 including the two Excursions, both of which were well at- 

 tended. The collection of plants at the first was tolerably 

 large and rich in flowers of comparative rarity, and would 

 probably have been larger, but for a sudden and heavy 

 shower which put a stop to collecting. The Committee have 

 to thank T. Sawbridge Drax, Esq., for the permission to 

 meet on this occasion in his park. 



The second Excursion to Dungeness and Lydd Beach was 

 immarred by weather or any other drawback, except that 

 from unavoidable delays it was too late in the year to find 

 the flora of the district in perfection, and the short time 

 allowed on land, in consequence of the tide, did not admit of 

 any comparison of results. 



The success of the meeting was greatly to be attributed to 

 the kindness of E. Iron, Esq., harbour superintendent of 

 Dover, in lending the Palmerston steam-tug for the tise of the 

 members. Early in the year your Comniittec instituted 

 monthly meetings for microscopic and conversational purposes, 

 at Canterbury, which at first were well attended, and at wliicli 



