THE 



SECOND ANNUAL MEETING 



The Second Annual Meeting was held at the Commercial 

 Hall on the evening of Tuesday, January i8th, 1870. 

 On the table were collections of 

 Folkestone Fossils, 

 Land and Freshwater Shells, 

 Marine Shells, 

 Madrepores, 

 Dried Plants, 

 lent by the Secretary ; also Nests of Weaver Birds, lent by 

 Miss Mallandaine ; Eggs and Fossils, lent by Mr. Place. 

 The President commenced the Business of the evening 

 by reading the following 



ADDRESS :— 



Ladies and Gentlemen, 



It is with no ordinary feeling of gratification 

 I address you this evening, on the occasion of our Second 

 Annual Meeting ; if I, in common with you all, hailed with 

 pleasure the formation of a Society for the cultivation of 

 Natural History ; if I watched with pride its steady progress 

 and increase for the first year, how much more pleasurable are 

 my feelings when I look around to-night, and am enabled to 

 congratulate you on having a Society, founded on a solid basis, 

 consisting of 1 1 8 members, and so ably represented by the 

 smiling and intelligent faces I see around me. We have had 

 some very clever papers read during the course of the year, 

 and an admirable example, which was nobly set by a lady 

 member last year, has been repeated by two others of our fair 

 members, who have contributed very interesting papers on local 

 Botany, and Domestic Birds, and if these were slightly imbued 

 with an element of romance, which they tell me is quite inse- 

 parable from the female character, surely this rather increased 



