XXIV ANNUAL REPORT. 



Two Day Excursions have been made : — On Easter 

 Monday, to Evesham and the banks of the Avon ; and on 

 Whit-Monday, to Warwick and Stoneleigh. Five Half-day 

 Excm'sions have also been made. 



It has been suggested that a Marine Excursion be organised 

 for 1881, the time to be the first week in July, and the place 

 Oban or its neighbourhood. 



At the end of the year 1879, the Society numbered 339 

 members, including two Honorary Vice-Presidents, twenty-five 

 corresponding members, and four life members. There have 

 been sixty new members elected, including Prof. Huxley, Mr. 

 Herbert Spencer, and Prof. C. C. Babmgton as Honorary 

 Vice-Presidents, and Eev. W. H. Dallinger, Messrs. H. J. Carter, 

 W. Phillips, Gr. C. Druce, and Richard Wright, as corres- 

 ponding members. There have been also ten associates added 

 to our numbers. The Society has lost one life member by 

 death, and thu'ty-seven members have resigned. The total 

 number of members and associates is now 871, so that there has 

 been a net increase of thirty-two. 



During the year there have been twenty-nine General 

 Meetings, with an average attendance of thirty-one, at which 

 sixteen papers have been read, as follows :■ — 



On some of the more remarkable 

 Infusoria captured during the Fal- 

 mouth Excursion, 1879 . . . . W. Saville Kent, F.L.S., F.R.M.S. 



Water Plants : their office in Nature 

 and uses in Aquaria . . . . H. W. Jones, F.C.S., F.R.M.S. 



Abstract of the Researches of Prof. 

 A. Weissmanu into the habits and 

 life-history of Leptodora hijalina . . Abthub M. Makshall, D.Sc. 



Some Phenomena of Ice . . . . W. B. Grove, B.A. 



On the changes in Plumage of some 

 of the British Birds . . . . R. W. Chase. 



Two of our Garden Pests — the Goose- 

 berry Saw-fly and the Currant 

 Moth W. G. Bl.\tch. 



A cheap and useful Entomological 



Cabinet W. G. Blatch. 



The Desmidieae of Sutton Park . . A. W. Wills. 



