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a considerable tinif was devoted to the inspection of a large number of exhibits that had been prepared 

 by the professors. Tliese exhibits included plants, insects, seeds, etc.. in health and disease, and the 

 causes of disease .and methods of meeting them were shown in a most interesting manner. 



Another excursion was to the excavation.s which have recently been made on the site of the old 

 Church of St. Pancras adjoining St. Augustine's College. 



This is the .5(ith year of the Society's existence, and the fact that the Society has existed so long, 

 proves that its founders and early members must have been keen and enthusiastic workers. Very 

 few scientific societies live to see their Jubilee, .and the f.act that the East Kent Natural History and 

 Scientific Society has existed for 50 years, should be an encouragement and a stimulus to all present 

 members to do all in their power to give the Society a more vigorous life, and to make it a worthy 

 monument of those ardent workers who were the founders and keen supporters for so many years. 



A. LANDER, 



Hon. Secretary 

 Medical Hall, 

 Canterbury. 



TREASURER'S STATEMENT FOR YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30th, 1Q07. 



■WltLIAM P. MANN, 



BOTANICAL NOTES. 



As my notes foi* 1906 wore unaccouutably lost on the way to the printer, and tlnn-efore <li'l not 

 appear in onr report, I must combine what I liave for 190<i — 07 in one account. 



The principal hml in ItKKi wns a Lizard orchis by Miss Phxiuptrc growing on waste ground by 

 the roadside in a district which, to safeguard the plant, has been described as lying " lietwoen 

 Canterbiu'y and Dover"; tliis plant flowered again last summer. 



The hybi-id named Ophrys hybriia, which was found l\v Messrs. ^Valker and Harris at Wye, as 

 described and illustrated in our report for 1905, threw up a flower spike both in 190f.i— 07, and several 

 other specimens of the same hybrid have since been found in the same neighbourhood. 



Thesinm hvmi/}isn,n was seen growing profusely by myself along the Hollow Lane on Swarling 

 Do\\"ns, IVthaiu, in 1900. This makes the third station in Petham for this plant which has been 

 noticed. It w-as fii-st found by Mrs. Hall in 1902. It is not do^vTi in the Flora of Kent. 



The rare Deptford Pink is still to be found at Petham. 



In 1907 another Lizard orchis was found at Wye, concerning which Mr. Drax writes me as 

 follows :^" It was foiuid by one of my men in the last week of July, and my gardener, ht-ariiig liim 

 talk about it and gathering from his description of what he had seen that it was a Lizard t-n-his, 

 obtained the flower from him. The bulb the man had transplanted to his own garden as a ciu'iosity, 

 and I have since obtained that also, and planted in a safe spot in the grounds of Olautigh, near the 

 spot where the one which you saw a few years ago still exists, but has not again flowered since you 

 saw it." 



I can now remember four Lizard orchis having been found in East Kent. 



A green variety of ihe Fly orchis was tVumd near Wye last summer ; it is described in the July 

 number of the journal of " Botany " by Mr. Knife, wlio calls it Ophrys mmcifera var virescen!>, and 



