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formed, has been attended with so much success, as to afford 
great encouragement, and to raise our hopes that the scheme I 
have alluded to is a step in the right direction. Each section 
has its own Chairman and Secretary and a small Committee on 
whom it devolves to arrange the work of the Section. By the 
establishment of the Microscopical Section much interest has 
been created in the subject of Microscopy, and many of the 
members have met together for mutual instruction and I trust 
no little pleasure and benefit has accrued to them therefrom. 
I may remark, that all the sections are open to every member 
of the Society, and all will be cordially welcomed to any of the 
sectional meetings, but these meetings will not be notified to any 
of the members, unless they give in their names to the Secretary, 
specifying the section, or sections, they wish to attend. 
Let me now give you a little sketch of the work which it is 
proposed to do insome of the sections or of that which I trust may 
be done. 
In the Photographic Section, elementary work will be taken 
up, as exposure, development, the various methods of printing 
&c., it is also the desire of its members to take up special methods, 
as lantern slide making, flower studies, photomicrography, enlarg- 
ing, &c., and to increase the interest in the work, they have in- 
stituted among themselves a series of competitions, medals and 
certificates will be given for the best work in the studies 
enumerated. 
In the Botanical section there is a large field open, both 
for winter and summer work. If, during the coming summer, 
the members of this section would make their special object 
the formation of a county herbarium, what lasting benefits they 
would confer, not only upon the botanists of our county, but 
upon the botanists of our country, while that which is all 
but impossible to the individual is possible to a number work- 
ing together with a commonaim. If such a work were begun, 
we may look, I am sure, for help from botanists, who at present 
are not members of our Society, yet who would with pleasure as- 
sociate themselves with us, by sending specimens from the dis- 
tricts in which they reside. Such a work would, of course, take a 
large amount of time and thought in the proper arrangement of 
all the details of such a scheme, in the mapping out of districts, 
sub-districts, &c., and here, if necessary, we could get the help of 
kindred societies in the county, and by exchange with them en- 
rich our collection with many specimens, otherwise only obtain- 
able under great difficulties; yet we are convinced, that if the 
