attractive with many vases of flowers, in contrast to last year 

 when all that was available were coltsfoots and a fev\r late 

 snowdrops with leaves of alexanderso V'e v/ish to thank all who 

 provided cakes and sandwiches and helped with the catering. 



Another good school exhibit v/as a display of various forms 

 of silicon in nature, including strav/ and bamboo, and the Public 

 Parks provided specimens of recent developments in hybrid 

 polyanthuses, som.e with enormous flowerSo Mro Ma3mard' s- 

 microscopes were a great attraction; crowds were round them all 

 the afternoon looking at living pond life, and slides of chro'vioscmes, 

 Brockhill school staged an attractive display of stoVe plants. 



In addition to his usual film programme, Mro Peach played a 

 curious record of American bird noises, lent by Miss Pellov/s, In 

 a classroom he had arranged an admirable children's exhibition 

 that v/as particularly inf on-native and v;-ell displayed. 



Staging was made much easier omng to all intending 

 exhibitors arriving in good time in the morning to set up their 

 stands. On several occasions in the past it has been very 

 disturbing when the arrival of late-comers has meant a re- 

 arrangement of stands already completedo There were fewer 

 exhibits than usual as local traders were not represented this 

 year, they having found it difficult to stage satisfactory 

 exhibits on Saturday, their busiest day, but there were more 

 visitors thaij ever, 



A pleasant event ^>ras the marriage of two of our members. 

 Miss J, Halls and Jlr, E, Brisley, v/ho met on the Botanical 

 Rambles, The Society presented them with a gift token at the 

 Annual General Meeting and Yidshed them every happiness in their 

 new home at Deal, 



The Society suffered a grievous loss in the death of 

 Mr, L, Bushby in a car accident. The Entomological Section has 

 suffered the loss of three more of their members, 

 Mr, C, Gu!-.imer, Mr, W, Fawthrop and Mro N, Pope, Obituary 

 notices v/ill be found elsewhere. We have also lost 

 Mr. F. Gilliatt and Mr, J, Tranter, 



