ADDRESS 
The Council of the Worcestershire Natural History 
Society in presenting the General Statement of their 
proceedings during the past year, are desirous, upon 
the present occasion, of calling the attention of the 
Members to the more immediate objects of the 
Society, in order that, by a comparison of what has 
been effected with the original views entertained 
at the formation of the Institution, some judgment 
may be formed how far the Council have fulfilled 
the important duties entrusted to them. 
The primary objects of the Society, as appears from 
the proceedings of the Meeting held in April 1833, 
at which it was constituted, and of the subsequent 
one in July last, at which the laws and general regu- 
lations were adopted, the Council conceive to be — 
first, the obtaining a knowledge of the natural pro- 
ductions of our own county — secondly, the dissemi- 
nating a taste for the pursuits of Natural History 
amongst the community at large — and thirdly, the 
contributing towards the advancement of the several 
branches of which Natural Science consists, by record- 
ing such facts and observations presented to our 
notice as may appear worthy of preservation. 
