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Missouri Botanic Garden. 



Nyt Magazine. 



Philippine Journal of Science. 



Redia. 



Royal Institution of Great Britain, Proceedings of. 



Royal Microscopical Society, Journal of. 



Royal Society of London, Proceedings of. B Series. 



Royal Society of New South Wales. 



Smithsonian Institute. 



Victorian Naturalist. 



Wisconsin Academy. 



During the year twelve excursions were held, the average 

 attendance was 17*6 ; this is very good when the number of our 

 members serving their country abroad or at home is taken into 

 consideration. The difficulty of finding suitable localities for 

 the Saturday afternoon excursions was increased by some cur- 

 tailment of excursion trains, as well as by the fact that owing to 

 war conditions it was not possible to visit the East London Water 

 Works or the Surrey Commercial Docks. The excursion to 

 Northolt and Ealing under the guidance of Mr. Offord was highly 

 successful, and a very pleasant outing was brought to a close by 

 the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Offord in entertaining the members 

 to tea at their house. We were indebted again to Sir Philip 

 Sassoon for permission to visit the private waters in Trent Park, 

 and to the Royal Botanic Society for their usual kindness in 

 allowing us to visit the gardens in Regent's Park. 



The Curator reports that a larger number of slides has been lent 

 than during the previous year, and 173 preparations have been 

 added to the Cabinet. The principal of these are twenty-four 

 beautiful and instructive dissections of the Rat Flea, kindly given 

 by the late Prof. Minchin, which, in conjunction with a reprint 

 of his paper, are available for borrowing as one of the descriptive 

 series. A welcome addition was the donation of seventy-seven 

 slides of Mosses from Mr. G. T. Harris, which should prove 

 valuable to any member taking up the study of this interesting 

 family. Another addition has been the purchase of a type- 

 collection of forty slides of Palaeobotany, prepared by the well- 

 known expert, Mr. Lomax. These are remarkably fine speci- 

 mens, and the majority of them are described and illustrated in 



