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SECTIONAL SECRETARIES’ REPORTS. 
The following reports and records of the various subjects 
dealt with at the lectures and field meetings during the past 
Session have been kindly provided by the Honorary Secretaries 
of the Sections :— 
BOTANICAL SECTION. : 
There have been three meetings of the Botanical Section during the 
past Session. All were amply illustrated by specimens, diagrams, or 
lantern slides, and all were well attended and thoroughly appreciated. 
A somewhat new departure was attempted at the second Meeting in 
that the subject, “‘ Stem Structure,” was illustrated by means of micro- 
scopical preparations of stems exhibited by members of the Microscopical 
Section. At the same meeting an interesting set of “Colour” photo- 
micrographs of stained stem sections, specially taken by Dr. Elliott, were 
exhibited. : 
The subjects, &c., dealt with at the Meetings were as follows :— 
Oct. 30th, 1913—‘‘ Edible Fungi.”—Mr. Joseph THompson. 
March 19th, 1914—“‘ Demonstration of the Stem Structure of Plants.”— 
MemBers OF THE MicroscopicaL SECTION. 
April 16th, 1914—‘‘ Some Wayside and Woodland Flowers.”—Mr. A. 
Newsteap, F.E.S. 
During the summer months, Excursions have been arranged as usual, 
the great majority of which have been more or less botanical in nature. 
The excursion to Overton-on-Dee and Erbistock was arranged in conjunction 
with the Liverpool Botanical Society, under the leadership of Mr. Dallman. 
Other most interesting botanical excursions were to Delamere, Gresford 
Woods, Hope Mountain, Leasowe and Hoylake, Mollington Meadows, and 
Burton Point. 
The exhibit in the Museum of fresh specimens of the local flora con- 
tinues under the able and painstaking superintendence of the Curator, 
Mr. A. Newstead, F.E.S., to be, not only of much interest, but also of 
great educational value. The exact localities of the rarer specimens have 
been, of late, wisely withheld. 
Reference elsewhere will doubtless be more adequately made, but it is 
felt to be incumbent that there should be included in this report an 
expression of the great personal loss which every member of the Botanical 
Section has experienced in the death of their beloved Chairman, Mr. J. D. 
Siddall. 
ZOOLOGICAL SECTION. 
“ BIRDS OF LOCH AND MOOR.” 
By Miss E. L. Turner, F.L.S., F.Z.8., &c. 
The Lecturer dealt with some principal characteristics of the outer 
Hebrides and their inhabitants, and in passing referred to the peculiar 
flora and fauna of this district and the absence of many birds common to 
the mainland. 
