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made all the arrangements for these Meetings, the best 

 thanks of the Society are due. Most of these gatherings 

 were successful from the point of numbers, and in most cases 

 the weather was fine for the exceptionally wet year. 



AsHTEAD TO MiCKLEHAM, on May i6th ; Conductor, Mr. 

 E. Step, F.L.S. 



HoRSLEY, on June 6th; Conductors, Messrs. W.J. Lucas, 

 B.A., and R. South, F.E.S. 



LiMPSFiELD, on June 27th; Conductor, Mr. R. Adkin, 

 F.E.S. 



Wendover, on July nth; Conductor, Mr. H. J. Turner, 

 F.E.S. 



Byfleet, on July 25th; Conductor, Mr. W.J. Lucas, B.A. 



Headley Lane, on September 12th ; Conductor, Mr. E. 

 Step, F.L.S. 



St. Paul's Cray, on October 3rd (Fungus Foray) ; Con- 

 ductor, Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S. 



The Abstract of Proceedings for 1902 was published a 

 month or two earlier than it had been for the two previous 

 years. It contained eight papers and nine Reports of Field 

 Meetings, with a considerable number of shorter notes of 

 interesting exhibits, comprised in xvi +126 pages. The 

 thanks of the Society are given to those gentlemen whose 

 names are inscribed on the second page of the cover, for 

 their very kind assistance in forwarding the publication of 

 the Report, and also to those gentlemen with whose assist- 

 ance the two plates and the chart were issued. 



The Society's Album has been enriched by the addition 

 of no less than one photograph — that of Mr. West, our 

 Curator. The Council desire to point out that each Mem- 

 ber's conscience should tell him whether he has yet carried 

 out one moral condition of his membership and given his 

 portrait, so that his fellow-members may in years to come 

 recall some of the pleasures of the social intercourse induced 

 by the Study of Natural History in our Society. 



The Society has lost the admirable services of Mr. Sauze, 

 who, through pressure of business, was compelled to resign 

 after six years' careful supervision of the Society's Library. 

 The Council wish to tender Mr. Sauze their heartiest 



