REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 



For the Session 1901 = 1902. 



✓dL HE Council have to report that the Society is pursuing 

 \wj the even tenor of its way, but that it has failed to 

 mark the commencement of the new Century by 

 any awakened vitality or by any increase in the 

 number of members, although the general interest in 

 scientific subjects that come within the ken of the Society 

 rapidly progresses in expectation of the present Century, 

 revealing by scientific research many of the wonders of 

 Nature hitherto undreamt of. 



The proceedings at the ordinary meetings of the Society 

 during the Session have been as under, viz. : — 



March, 1901. — The President delivered his address 

 relating to " The existence of Coal in this Country, and the 

 present position and future prospects of the supply." This 

 address was unavoidably postponed from the Annual Meeting 

 in February, and was printed and distributed to the members 

 in the Transactions of the Session, 1900-1901. 



April, 1901.— Mr. Herbert Jones, F.S.A., F.L.S., the 

 Hon. Treasurer, gave some notes on last year's excavations 

 at Canterbury and Richborough, and on a find of Roman 

 antiquities at W aimer, in Kent. 



May, 1901. — Very interesting papers and notes were 

 given by Mr. Herbert Jones, Mr. Geo. Draper, and Mr. A. 

 D. Webster relative to exhibits at the Biennial Soiree of the 

 Society, held on the 14th May. A number of the exhibits 

 being reproduced for the inspection of the members. 



October, 1901. — Photographs taken during the summer 

 months, at the Ladies' Field Meeting and elsewhere, were 

 exhibited by Messrs. J. C. Weare and W. H. Gover. Mr. 

 Geo. Draper also made some exhibits of curios — from Cyprus 

 and elsewhere — of great interest. 



November, 1901.— Mr. Stanley Edwards, F.R.G.S., F.E.S 

 read a paper on the " Charaxes," a family of Butterflies, an 



