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Associates, not one of whom has been in direct communication 

 •with the Society foi* years. Associates of scientific societies 

 are usually persons able and willing to assist the Society and 

 themselves by intercoui'se with it, but from whom the pay- 

 ment of subscriptions could not be expected. Such Associates 

 the Society will at all times be ready to welcome and encourage 

 most cordially ; but it is a question whether a limit ought not 

 to be so far piit to them that, in case they cease any intercourse 

 with the Society for two or three years, this fact should catise 

 their names to be removed from the list, any Associate thus 

 removed being still eligible for re-flection. Special cases of 

 exemption could easily be dealt with by the Committee. 



Committee on the Flora of East Kent. 



This Committee has to report that, owing to uniisual and 

 unavoidable circumstances, the initiatory steps for renewing 

 the investigations into the Flora of the district could not be 

 taken at the commencement of last year, and consequently the 

 inqiiiry was checked for the season. The work, however, has 

 not been suspended, the analysis and registry of jsrevious lists 

 of plants, which were considerable, have been going on, and 

 one or two fresh lists have been received. The Committee will 

 shortly renew the inq\iiry under the plan that has been hitherto 

 so satisfactory. 



JAMES REID, . 



noil. Sec. of this Committee. 



Report of Librarian for 1870. 



The funds placed at the disposal of the Librarian during 

 the year 1870 consisted of £10 fi-om the General Fund of the 

 Society, and 6s. balance from 1869. 



of this sum £2 14s. 8d., have been spent in the purchase 

 of new works, viz. : — Haughton's Three Kingdoms of Nature, 

 1 vol. : Gosse's Marine Zoology. 2 vols. ; Bowerbank's British 

 Spongiadse, vol. 1 ; Joiu-nal of Botany for 1870 (12 Nos.), 1 vol.; 

 £4 16s. 2d. in the pui'chase of Periodicals; and 19s. 6d. for 



