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The President having taken the chair, called upon the 

 Treasurer to read the Balance Sheet, for 1868, which we here 

 present to our readers :— ' 



BALANCE SHEET. 



RECEIPTS. 



£ s. d. 

 To Subscriptions re- 

 ceived for 1868 8 17 6 

 „ Eeceipts for the 



dne 2 2 lOJ 



£11 4J 



EXPENDITURE. 



£ s. d. 

 By Printing Circu- 

 lars, &c 3 19 



„ Ordinary Expen- 

 ses, Postage, &c. 13 7i 

 „ Postage of Ma- 

 gazines 1 10 



„ Cash in hand 6 5 11 



£11 4i 



THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Ladies and Gentlemex, 



On this our first Anntial Meeting, I think I 

 may be fairly allowed to congratulate you on the great success of 

 the Folkestone Natural History Society; a success due not only to 

 the long-felt want of such a Society in this neighbourhood, but to 

 the great exertions and never-ceasing interest of some of our 

 members. Nor do I think it would be right to allow this occasion 

 to pass without thanking our Hon. Secretary and the Eev. C. L. 

 Acland for all they have done for us. They, in fact, are the patient 

 nurses who have guided and guarded the first tottering footsteps of 

 our infant Society until it has become the stalwart stripling we 

 now behold it. Beginning with only 30 members we have 

 reached the respectable number of 85, and are even now daily in- 

 creasing. Nor is this surprising when we remember that a love 

 of Natural History being once awakened, it becomes the most 

 fascinating of pursuits; every surrounding object, however familiar 

 apd common-place assumes a new interest, it is like the first dawn 

 of love in the human breast; immediately every object assumes a 



