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In three of the upstair rooms of the New Museum and Library 
the Botanical display was arranged. 
Two rooms were devoted;to the plants obtainable in the County 
during the month of August. These, to the number of nearly 500, 
were arranged in two tiers, in long narrow boxes, filled with damp 
sand, and as some of the plants withered they were replaced from day 
to day by fresh ones. 
In the third room dried plants were exhibited in three rows on 
the walls ; while mosses, lichens, &c., were placed on tables running 
round the-room, as well as ‘‘Sowerby’s Wild Flowers” and other 
botanical works from the Society’s Library. 
The management of the living Flora was undertaken by Mr. 
B. Lomax, who admirably carried out the views of the Committee ; 
while that of the dried plants were under the charge of Mr OC. P. 
Smith, who got together some very choice plants. 
The following ladies and gentlemen contributed to the living 
flora :—Misses A. Woodhouse (Eastbourne) and Robinson (Sedles- 
combe), Mrs Hodgson, Mrs. Hancock, Rev. — Brewer (Worthing), 
Messrs. Griffith, Boyes, Hadlow, T. H. Hennah, A. Bigge, H. J. H. 
Nicholls, F, Merrifield, W. Mitten (Hurst), H. Willett, G. D. Roper 
(Eastbourne), Nourse, Nourse, jun., Hall, G. D. Sawyer, W. H. 
Smith, C. P. Smith, B. Lomax, Helmsley (Hassock’s Gate), C. Hill 
(Rockhurst). 
Among the exhibitors of dried plants, Miss Hall (Eastbourne) 
exhibited a fine collection of flowering plants, chiefly Sussex. Mr. 
Mitten, mosses and hepatice, all Sussex, including some unique 
species. Mr. C. P. Smith, Sussex grasses and marine and fresh water 
alge. Mr. G. Davies, Sussex Lichens, including the rare V. Garo- 
vaglii and V. Microcarpa. Mrs. Hodgson, Brighton marine algze. 
Mr. Clarke, Mayor of Saffron Walden, rare British plants; Mr. R. C. 
Roper, leaf fungi ; and Miss Turner, New Zealand ferns. 
Mr’ T. H. Hennah lent a number of British ferns in pots, 
_ During the meeting the Society’s Weather Charts, issued by the 
Meteorological Office, were suspended in the Reception-room. 
