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were projected on the screen. The success of the photographic 

 meetings, and the comparative faihire of others, point, I think, 

 to the true functions and uses of these meetings. It is, I think, 

 not to be expected that our Honorary Secretary, wiUing and 

 energetic as he is, should provide subject-matter for them ; they 

 ought rather to be arranged for by groups or sections of our 

 members with common interests, and they would then afi'ord 

 excellent opportunities for these to meet together to exchange 

 information and ideas. The success of our Photographic Section 

 points also to the organisation of other subsections for the special 

 prosecution of other branches of science. 



Excursions or Field Meetings. — The Excursions or Field Meetmgs 

 announced at the beginning of the season were eight in number; 

 in two of them we were associated with the Holmesdale Club, in 

 one with the Quekett, and in one with the Essex Field Club. 

 I give the list as issued, but regret that I can only speak from per- 

 sonal knowledge of four of them in which I was able to take part. 



Excursions. 



May 15th. — To Merstham, for Chipstead and Upper Gatton. 

 To join the Holmesdale Club at Merstham, 



June 14th (Whit Monday). — Oxted and neighbourhood. Whole 

 day. 



July 3rd. — Frensham Ponds. Whole day. To join the Holmes- 

 dale Club. 



July 17th. — Warliugham. Half day. 



Aug. 7th. — Leatherhead. Half day. 



Aug. 28th. — Caterham Junction, for Chaldon. Half day. 



Sept. 18th. — Hayes and Keston. Half day. To join the 

 Quekett Club. 



Oct. 2nd. — Chingford. Whole day. To join the Essex Field 

 Club. 



On Whit Monday, June 14th, the excursion was to Oxted and 

 neighbourhood. The party of about twenty, after leaving Oxted 

 Station, followed the footpath from the church towards the chalk 

 quarries. My friend Prof. John Macoun, of Ottawa, of the 

 Canadian Government Geological and Natural History Survey, 

 and one of its representatives at the recent Exhibition, was one 

 of the party. He is known in Canada as the chief pioneer of the 

 survey and settlement of the Great North-West Provinces of the 

 Dominion: His delight and admiration at the sight of a field of 

 crimson clover, 'irlfoliiov incarnatum, through which the path 

 lay, was unbounded. " We have nothing in America to show 

 you equal to this," were his first words. In the woods skirting 

 the lane to the quarries, the great helleborine, Cephalanthera 



