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The details of the Sectional Lectures and Excursions will be 

 given in the Sectional Reports. 



The Society is to be congratulated on having obtained the 

 consent of Sir E. Ray Lankester to be nominated for election as 

 President for the forthcoming year. 



The financial position of the Society is eminently satisfactory, 

 as the Hon. Treasurer's Report will disclose, and the thanks of the 

 Society are especially due to Mr. Brumell for his ever increasing 

 labours in that post. 



Several valuable gifts in books and specimens have been made 

 to the Society, which will probably be enumerated by the Hon. 

 Librarian's and Sectional Reports. 



The Council desire to express their thanks to those members 

 and friends who have contributed lectures or conducted excursions 

 during the past year. 



