SECTIONAL SECRETARIES’ REPORTS. 
The following reports and records of the various subjects 
5 dealt with at the lectures and field meetings during the past 
‘Session have been kindly provided by the Honorary Secretaries 
BOTANICAL SECTION. 
There were two meetings of the Botanical Section during the Autumn and 
Winter Sessions. 
On Thursday, October 14th, Mr. Arthur A. Dallman, F.C.S., delivered a 
Lecture on ‘“‘ Wild Flowers and their Ways.’’ The subject was a popular one, 
nd the audience was large and appreciative. The lecturer treated this very 
wide subject in an interesting and able manner. Some very interesting points 
‘im connection with the local flora were raised, especially with regard to alien 
plants and local plant folk lore. 
A special feature of interest in the lecture was a splendid series of lantern 
slides from the lecturer’s own photographs. 
The second meeting of the Botanical Section was held on Thursday, Feb- 
mary 10th. Miss K. E. Maris lectured on ‘‘ Plant Life in Winter.’? The 
ter habits of different types of vegetation and the causes controlling those 
bits were dealt with as fully as time would allow. The lecture was illus- 
ZOOLOGICAL SECTION. 
_ Of the two evenings allotted to the Zoological Section the first was filled 
on October 2ist by Mr. Alfred Newstead, F.E.S. (Curator), who delivered to 
large audience, presided over by the Chairman (Dr. W. Henry Dobie), a 
t interesting lecture entitled ‘‘ Observations on some Sea and Inland 
ds.” The lecturer described in detail the protective colouration of adults, 
, young, and nests, with their environments; why the nests of many inland 
s are carefully constructed and concealed; nesting-sites of waders and sea- 
S$; reasons for the activity of their young soon after hatching; how nature 
ood and external characters indicate habitats; and nesting-sites of birds 
lay white eggs. The lecture was illustrated with photographs from 
ste. In opening a discussion which followed, the Chairman expressed 
wn views on some of the points of the lecture, more particularly with 
sgard to the nesting sites of waders and sea birds, and the nesting-sites of 
‘ds which lay white eggs. 
At the Meeting for ‘“‘ Notes and Records of the Past Year,’’ held on Feb- 
lary 17th, Mr. W. F. J. Shepheard (Secretary of the Section) presided, in the 
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Apr. 24th—80 or more Golden Plover in field off the Cop, and a few again in 
same field on April 30th. 
