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CHELTENHAM COLLEGE NUXURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



BOTANICAL SECTION. 



President 

 Secretary 



J. R. Wynne-Edwards, Esq. 

 G. W. Sparrow. 



Working Members : 



J. E. Home. 

 C. G. Weld. 

 F. E. Williams. 

 C. P. James. 



C. H. G. MOTTRAM. 



C. H. C. NOAD. 

 J. H. Roberts. 

 C. F. Noel. 

 B. Walter. 

 F. P. Wernicke. 



HE competition for the Botany Prize this year was 

 carried out on somewhat simpler lines than formerly. 

 Instead of working out the natural orders with the 

 help of the 'School Flora,' the competitors merely 

 brought their specimens to the Museum and had 

 them identified and marked. This enabled them to 

 spend more of their spare time in actually hunting for flowers, though 

 probably at some sacrifice of accuracy of knowledge. 



Another year we hope to have a complete record of the dates of 

 first flowerings, but this year we have been unable to do this and have 

 appended the initials of the two who get the greatest number to the 

 flowers they found. 



The Section shared two expeditions with the Ornithological 

 Section. The first was on June 7th. We drove to Whitcombe, and 

 after inspecting the Roman Villa, walked through the woods up to 

 Birdlip. 116 different species were found in all. The second was 

 to Hillcot and Colesbourne, and the woods by the Colne proved an 

 excellent hunting ground. We were sorry to miss the Mimulus, 

 which has been found in former years in the stream-bed. We got 128 

 species in all. 



We make a special appeal to all those who feel an interest in 

 Wild Flowers to join this Section next year. Boating boys have 

 special opportunities for collecting, and the President of the Section 



