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the entire collective natural history of the neighbour- 
hood, including Geology, Palaeontology, Mineralogy, 
Botany, and Zoology. The arrangement of details 
has occupied much of the attention of your Council, 
who considered it most desirable that the Society 
should undertake all risks of the publication; the 
first part of which will, it is hoped, be issued in the 
course of the ensuing summer or autumn. It has 
been decided that the extent of ground covered by 
the Society's operations, shall be a radius of nine 
miles round the city, the Palaeontology of theAust 
Section, as well as the Natural History of Weston- 
super-Mare and Clevedon being given in appendices ; 
and that the size of the work shall be Octavo, the 
plates and photographs not exceeding the letterpress 
in size. Your Council have much satisfaction in 
stating that they have obtained the valued cooperation 
of several members in different branches of the work, 
and they wish to take this opportunity of reminding 
the Society that the season of the year is now 
approaching, when Natural History observations are 
made with the greatest facility, and that every assist- 
ance in their power will be afforded by the Council 
and Officers to those who are willing to undertake 
one special subject, as several gentlemen have already 
done, or who have only the opportunity of putting 
on record occasional observations; because they, 
consider that a work of such a kind and magnitude, 
can be successfully accomplished only by the united 
action of a large number of members, and they 
