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Journal of Proceedings.
The details of the establishment of the "Forest Camps Exploration
Fund " will be found in the "Journal of Proceedings." The Treasurer
reports that the sums given or promised up to January 1st amount to
£44 3s. This sum will enable the Club to work at one Camp as soon
as the weather is favourable in the spring, and in all probability
the surplus will be sufficient to cover the cost of printing the results of
the investigation in the "Transactions." It is very desirable that both
Camps should be examined, and the Council solicits further subscrip-
tions from members and others interested in the subject.
Eleven Ordinary Meetings of the Club have taken place during the
year; 341 members have attended, giving an average of 31 for each
meeting. Seventy-six visitors have also been present. At the seven
Field Meetings held during the summer, 226 members have attended,
giving an average of 32, with 106 visitors. Your Council is fully
sensible of the great importance of interesting and instructive meetings ;
every effort will be made to maintain that character, and it is sincerely
hoped and requested that members and friends will in all ways within
their power aid such attempts. The Club is very much indebted to
those gentlemen who so kindly acted as conductors at the Field
Meetings. The Council also records with gratitude the pleasant
hospitality accorded to the Club on its visit to High Laver Rectory by
Mrs. and Mr. Rodwell.
Two parts of the "Transactions" have been published, in addition
to the President's Inaugural Address, which comprises pp. 1-26, the
whole occupying 154 pages. Part I. is occupied by Mr. Walker's
lecture, a sheet of geological sections being given with it; whilst
Part II. gives papers and full reports of meetings up to and including
November 10th. The Council is painfully aware of the paucity of
papers and communications submitted to the Club, but as this subject
is dwelt upon elsewhere, it is unnecessary to do more than refer to
it in this place.
A few books and publications have been presented to the Club
during the year, which are duly acknowledged in the reports of the
meetings, but the Library is necessarily at present in an embryonic
stage. Pressure of other affairs obliged Mr. Argent to resign the office
of Librarian in October, when the post was taken by Mr. Alfred
Lockyer until the Annual Meeting. Mr. Lockyer offers his services as
Librarian, and he has already been working energetically to establish
friendly relations and exchange of publications with London and
Provincial Societies. Two rooms at the Head Quarters will shortly be
fitted up as a Library and Museum, and the Council earnestly begs
members and others to aid with books and specimens. A special
circular will be issued giving details as to the kind of specimens required,
and best mode of preparing the same for our collections. Two
contributions to the museum demand special notice : a small Herbarium