xil. Proceedings. 
Ordinary Meeting, Dec. 18th, 1878. 
ALFRED CARPENTER, Esq., M.D., President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Mr. J. W. Ward, Mr. C. James Egg, and Mr. F. M. 
Walton were balloted for and elected. 
Mr. Thomas Cushing and Mr, Henry Turner were appointed 
to audit the accounts of the Club for the current year. 
The PRESIDENT announced that Professor Rupert Jones had 
presented the Club with two pamphlets—‘‘On recent 
Foraminifera of County Down and Antrim,” by Joseph Wright, 
F.G.S., and published in the transactions of the Belfast 
Naturalists’ Field Club; and ‘‘ Les Foraminiferes Vivants et 
Fossiles de la Jamaique,” by Professor T. Rupert Jones, W. K. 
Parker, and H. B. Brady. 
The PRESIDENT drew attention to a new and very ingenious 
section cutting machine, which was exhibited by the inventor, 
Mr. W. L. Sarjeant, a member of the Club. 
Mr. FLower next read the first report of the Botanical 
Sub-Committee (vide p. 8), which was illustrated by numerous 
dried plants from the neighbourhood of Croydon, which were 
exhibited by the members of the Botanical Sub-committee. 
To this report was added some remarks by Mr. Flower, on 
some of the more interesting of the plants mentioned in the 
report. 
In the discussion which ensued, the PRESIDENT expressed 
his opinion that the report was a very valuable contribution to 
the work of the Club, and pointed out very clearly the direction 
they should follow. Mr. Flower had shown them that the list 
was not complete, and he thought they could not do better 
than ask the sub-committee to continuethe work. He believed 
it would be their wish that in due course the report should be 
put in type. Subsequent reports might be added, so that in 
the future they would have a “ Flora” of their own. 
Mr. KuaassENn thought it was a wise conclusion not to 
publish the places where the several species were discovered, 
and mentioned one instance where a certain flower had 
disappeared from the neighbourhood in which it was found 
owing to the raids made by persons who, except for such 
publicity, would have been ignorant of the locality in which it 
erew. He hoped that in future the sub-committee would 
make known the soil upon which the plants grew. He under- 
stood Mr. Flower to say that 750 species had been found. He 
thought that there were altogether about 950 species to be 
found near Croydon. 
Mr. FLower said the sub-committee was not yet in a 
