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Secretary or the Editor, entitles to membership and four 

 issues of the " Gazette," concerning which all communi- 

 cations should be addressed to the Editor, ii, Shaa Road, 

 Acton, London, W. He also calls special attention to the 

 August meeting, particulars of which are given below. 



Editor. 



THE AUGUST MEETING. 



It has been the custom for the members of the British 

 Pteridological Society to hold their Annual Meeting on the 

 August Bank Holiday, at which meeting the Report and 

 Balance-Sheet of the Society are produced, any necessary 

 resolutions passed and the place of the next annual meeting 

 determined. Advantage is also taken of this meeting to 

 display fronds or plants of new fern varieties for judging 

 and naming, and to organize one or more fern-hunting 

 expeditions in the locality in conjunction therewith. Such 

 of the members who can manage to arrive on the Friday 

 at the rendezvous, which will be determined beforehand, 

 will have thus a good opportunity of familiarizing them- 

 selves with the ferns of the neighbourhood, and it rarely 

 happens that such expeditions are undertaken without good 

 results in the way of wild finds. For many years the 

 meetings were held at Bo'ness, Windermere, but eventually 

 it was thought desirable that other ferny localities should 

 be visited, especially Devon , where a large number of species 

 was available and in greater abundance, but this idea still 

 remains in abeyance, though a change of scene was effected 

 by a fixture in Ireland, where, however, the attendance was 

 too scanty to encourage further trips in that direction. 

 Last year, therefore, it was determined to hold the meeting 

 next August Bank Holiday at Moffat in Dumfriesshire, 

 as being not only in a district where ferns abound, but also 

 within comparatively easy reach of those resident in English 

 lakeland and Scotland. Our president, Mr. Alexander 

 Cowan, has very kindly visited Moffat and made, the 

 necessary encpairies as to accommodation, and we are 



