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chasings, incrustations, relief work, and piercings in metal of a 
minute perfection such as no other nation has ever produced. 
At this meeting it was agreed that junior members under 18 
years of age should be admitted at a subscription of 2s. 6d. per 
annum, entitled to all the privileges of membership except 
voting. 
November 20th.—At this meeting Mr. W. Law Bros, of the 
Camera Club, London, was to have given a lecture on ‘‘ Buddhist 
Jain and Hindu Temples in India’’; but, owing to his lamented 
death, very shortly before the meeting, the Club were deprived 
of the privilege. 
In its place Mr. J. E. Clark gave an account of the Nordrach 
district in the Black Forest, illustrated by photographs taken by 
one of the patients at this consumptive sanatorium. Lying nine 
miles from town or rail in the recesses of the pine forests, at a 
' height of 1500 ft., with mountains as high again forming a 
horse-shoe round it to east and north, the spot is ideal for the 
purpose. Dr. Walther’s triple system consists of open-air life 
without fatigue, unceasing individual oversight, and the most 
liberal consumption of wholesome but carefully varied food. 
At this meeting also Dr. Parsons exhibited a collection of dried 
plants gathered in August, 1900, in company with Mr. Mennell, 
at Fionnay, Switzerland. Fionnay is a village in the Val de 
Bagne by the muddy glacier-fed river Dranse; it stands at an 
altitude of 5000 ft. above the sea, and the mountains rise steeply 
on either side into snowy peaks, the highest of which—the 
Grand Combin—is some 14,000 ft. in height. The plants were 
collected at various elevations—from the fir woods which occupy 
the lower slopes, from the high mountain pastures, or ‘‘ alps,” 
and from the moraines of the glaciers up to a height of some 
10,000 ft. 
Of the plants exhibited, a few found in the lower ground were 
of South European type, as the hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis); but 
those found on the high mountain pastures and moraines were 
of an alpine and northern type. Some of these were species 
which are rare natives of the north of Britain; others were not 
British species, though mostly of genera or families represented 
in Britain. 
The alpine plants have many of them a characteristic habit of 
erowth, viz. a rosette of root-leaves and a leafless stem bearing 
one or more brightly-coloured flowers. They have also commonly 
two sets of roots, viz. a long tap-root penetrating into the rock 
to reach the deeply seated moisture, and a bunch of rootlets 
immediately under the surface to collect the moisture from dew 
and passing showers. Gentians, saxifrages, sedums, and semper- 
vivums were numerously represented. ; 
