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FEOCEEDINGS FOR THE YEAR 1894. 

 ELEVENTH SERIES. 



January 16th, 1894. 



This was really the Annual Meeting for the previous year, which 

 it had been found impossible to hold in December. The attendance 

 was small. H. G. Knaggs, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., was elected a 

 member. Dr. T. Eastes. the President, was in the chair, and his 

 address took the form of a paper on 



THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Five and twenty years ago last spring, in the committee room of 

 the Town Hall, Mr. Ullyett, who had been Secretary to a Natural 

 History Society before he came to Folkestone, proposed to a meeting 

 called together for the purpose that a society be formed in the town 

 for the study of natural history, to be called the Folkestone Natural 

 History Society. This resolution was seconded by Mr. Kennett 

 and carried. Dr. FitzGerald was elected president, and Mr. Ullyett 

 secretary and treasurer at the same meeting, and that is the history 

 of the birthday of a society which is to-night holding its 27th annual 

 meeting. Twenty-five members joined that evening, and it was 

 arranged to have a field day on the first Saturday in every month, 

 but the first was on April 15th, Wednesday in Easter week, instead 

 of on Saturday. Mr. Ullyett read a paper to the members assembled 

 at No. 2 Tower, overlooking the Warren, on "Local Geology," 

 which I have here. It was the first of a very long series of charm- 

 ing papei-s on all branches of natural history, which our secretary 

 has indefatigably provided in winter and summer, indoors and out 



