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candidates for ordinary membership of the club were proposed and 

 seconded. 



It was considered appropriate that the annual address of the president 

 (Mr Blashill) for the Jubilee year, which address was delivered at the 

 annual spring meeting on 3rd April 1902, should be incorporated in 

 the Transactions of the Jubilee year, 1901. 



A type-written copy of the earliest papers of the club (dating from 

 1852 to 1865) was presented. The publication of these papers and 

 of the transactions of the club connected with its early origin was 

 approved, with the expression of the desirability of incorporating the 

 earliest printed six numbers, which were issued in pamphlet form. The 

 first originally bound volume of the club is dated 1866, and treats of 

 the transactions of the year 1866. It is a valuable and a rare volume, 

 containing as it does the first part of the Flora of Herefordshire, a 

 map of the county divided into fourteen botanical districts, and notes 

 on the geology of each separate district by the Rev. W. S. Symonds, 

 F.G.S., &c, which latter was more recently revised and amplified in 

 'A Flora of Herefordshire/ issued in 1889. It is expected that 

 the volume of Transactions, now in the press, richly illustrated with 

 local objects of which it is desirable to retain a permanent record, will 

 be issued, at an early date, free to all members who have paid their 

 annual subscription for the ensuing year 1903. 



The Seventh Report of the Southport Society of Natural Science 

 records the admission of 25 new members in the year, bringing the 

 total up to 141 ordinary members. At the evening meetings papers 

 have been read or lectures given on the Southport Electricity Works 

 by D. Edmondson Benson ; Greek Architecture in Sicily by J. Noton ; 

 British Snakes by Dr Gerald Leighton ; New Stars by Rev. A. L. 

 Cortie ; The Spectroscope by T. Thorp ; A Neolithic Instrument by 

 G. W. Chaster, M.R.C.S. ; and Caves by the new president and late 

 hon. secretary, Mr Harold Brodrick, M.A. The Report includes a list 

 of the Lepidoptera of Southport and District by E. Basil Hobson. We 

 congratulate Mr Brodrick on the flourishing state of the society. 



Volume vi., Part II., of the Transactions of the Natural History 

 Society of Glasgow contains in its 100 pages some important contribu- 

 tions to local natural science. The most important of these are — 

 Extracts from Ornithology of Glasgow, by the late Dr John Grieve ; 

 The Seals, Whales, and Dolphins, of the Clyde Area, by Hugh Boyd 

 Watt; The Weather of 1900 and its Effect upon Vegetation, by J. 

 YVhitton ; Additions to List of Scottish Coleoptera, by Anderson 

 Fergusson ; and Notes on the Marine Deposits of the Firth of Forth, 

 by F. G. Pearcey. In addition to these there are numerous other 

 papers of much interest. A membership of over 350 indicates a very 

 active interest in natural science work. 



The Transactions for 1 902 of the Caradoc and Severn Valley Field 

 Club record the results of six excursions and eight other meetings. 



