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present arrangement is somewhat an improvement upon that 

 existing say six years ago. When this further accommodation 

 is added I am hoping that it will be possible to set a small 

 room apart with a table and a case of reference books, which 

 students can consult in identifying their specimens, &c. ; and 

 in other ways I am hoping that our museum may be brought 

 into line with the more advanced museums in other parts of 

 the country. 



From the preceding remarks I trust it has been shown 

 that in Hull at any rate it is found that by working together 

 both the local societies and the museum certainly benefit. I 

 am quite prepared to admit that the museum has by far the 

 best part of the bargain, but it is perhaps as well even to 

 make this clear, as one hears sometimes doubts expressed in 

 certain quarters as to the desirability from the ratepayers' 

 point of view of the museum and the local societies being so 

 intimate. I think my remarks have shown, though it was 

 surely not necessary to an audience such as this, that our 

 mutual good relationship results in the ratepayers benefitting 

 considerably, and what is perhaps even of more importance, 

 the educational value of the museum is exceedingly enhanced. 



EAST YORKSHIRE BOTANICAL NOTES IN 1906. 

 By J. Fraser Robinson. 



THE past year, so far as the meteorological conditions 

 are concerned, has been very favourable to botanical 

 pursuits, and again steady, if not very brilliant work 

 has been done. On all the Club's excursions, the botanical 

 section has been represented, the localities visited being 

 chiefly old and former haunts. So it comes that little in 

 the way of " new to the flora " can be said of the discoveries. 

 One plant is almost a new record for the East Riding 

 of Yorkshire, and it is certainly the first record for Holder- 

 ness or the river Hull district. This is Cardamine amara, 

 first found by Mr. G. R. Cook, at the Figham Excursion in 

 May or June last, and reported to us by Mr. Waterfall. 

 This proves a welcome addition to our local plant list, for it 

 will probably help more than anything else to clear up the 

 identity of the unusual form of cardamine hybrid, found near 

 "Gibraltar" farm some years ago. It seems most likely 

 that as both parents, viz. C. amara and C. pratensis are 



