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The Accounts of the Hon. Treasurer have been duly 

 audited, and show an adverse balance of £12 5s., notwithstand- 

 ing the very welcome donation of £5 from an old Member, 

 towards the reduction of the previous year's deficiency. It will 

 be seen that the ordinary expenditure amounted to £23 5s. 7d. ; 

 the receipts from subscriptions to £81 10s. No subscriptions 

 for the year 1904 are included in this account, but there were 

 none outstanding on the 31st December, 1903, as has some- 

 times been the case in former years. 



Many objects of interest have been exhibited, and the 

 following papers read at the Ordinary Meetings : — 



On 25th March, 1903.— Mr. W. Webster, F.C.S., on 

 " Recent Developments in X Rays." 



On 22nd April. — -Mr. J. F. Green, on "The Fauna of 'The 

 Cedars,' Lee." 



On 27th May. — Mr. W. B. Billinghurst, on " Animal Para- 

 sites — Entozoa." 



On 25th November. — Mr. W. H. Gover, assisted by Mr. 

 A. S. Gover, exhibited, by the aid of the limelight, numerous 

 photographs taken by him of the scenery in the district 

 between Arolla and Zermatt. 



On 27th January, 1904. — Mr. J. F. Green, on "Protective 

 Colouring." 



On 24th February. — Dr. Walter Kidd, on " The Relation 

 between Muscular Activity and Beauty of Form in Animals." 



The President being abroad at the time of the Annual 

 Meeting, the usual Address will be given at a subsequent 

 Meeting. 



A most successful Soiree was held on the 14th May, in the 

 Hall adjoining the Congregational Church. During the even- 

 ing, Mr. W. Webster, F.C.S., gave a Demonstration of Radium 

 and the Rontgen Rays. Mr. Holding delivered two Lecturettes 

 on " Modification of the Hand and Foot," and " Geological 

 Distribution of Birds." Music, Vocal and Instrumental, was 

 kindly contributed by Madame Annie Buckland, and Messrs. 

 Beadle, W. B. Billinghurst, L. B. Draper, and R. Tonking. 



The Field Meeting was held at Maidstone, on 25th June, 

 and was well attended. The Members were show n over the 



