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Financially, as you have heard from the honorary treasurer, 
Mr. Bidwell, our position remains much the same as it was last 
year, sufficient for our moderate needs and a balance in hand, but 
little more is to be had in future from the sale of back ‘Transactions.’ 
Mr. Nicholson finds the number of members at the present 
time to be 25G ; eight have died, four have resigned, and nine 
new members have been elected. Of four of those removed by 
death, Mr. Colman, Mr. Harwell, the Revs. C. R. Manning and 
J. M. Du Port, Mr. Southwell has kindly prepared the following 
obituary notices. 
“ By the death of Mr. J. J. Colman, which took place on the 
18th of September last, the Society has lost one of its original and 
most valued members; in early life Mr. Colman devoted much 
time to the study of Natural History, especially to Entomology. 
He was also an active member of the Norwich Microscopical Society, 
but after the death of his father, which took [dace shortly after his 
marriage in 1856, the chief care of an enormously increasing 
business left him little leisure for such pursuits, not that his interest 
in Natural Science diminished in the least, for although unable to 
givo his time, both his sympathy and liberal support were always 
forthcoming when required, and in the old days when the history 
of our Museum was one continuous struggle for want of means, he 
was one of its most liberal supporters, retaining a seat on the 
Committee of Management till the last, his final act being the 
bequeathal of a number of Pictures to the value of £5000, part of 
the unrivalled collection of examples of the Norwich School of 
Ai’tists, which he had got together at Carrow. Mr. Colman was 
Mayor of Norwich in 1867, when the British Association visited 
the City, and won the esteem of all who came in contact with 
him by his genial manners and unbounded hospitality. He also 
represented the City in Parliament for twenty-one consecutive vears, 
and took a leading part in agriculture, being most successful as an 
exhibitor of Red-polled Cattle, both at Smithfield and elsewhere. 
Many of us, doubtless, remember the princely reception given 
by Mr. Colman to the members of this Society at Corton, on 
the 31st July, 1879, when he entertained us with his usual 
