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1884. BOTANICAL SECTION. 
Dec. 4—‘A brief notice of Vegetable Phosphorescence”” by MR. J. 
Price, M.A., Chatrman. 
= Also a few remarks on “ Desmids,” by MR. E. A. GROCOTT. 
1885. 
Jan. ale Food of Plants and how they obtain it,” by Mr. J. D. 
SIDDALL. 
March 12—‘‘ Fern Life,” by Mr. J. T, RICHES. 
April 23— ‘Special Organs of Plants,” by Mr. RosertT HOLLAND, 
Frodsham. 
1884. ZOOLOGICAL SECTION. 
Dec. 11—‘‘ Review of past year,” by Mr. A. O. WALKER, Chairman. 
1885. 
Feb. 5—‘‘Notes on the Zoology of the West Coast of Africa,” by 
Dr. MACPHERSON. 
March 19—‘‘The Frog; its anatomy, life history, and place in nature,” by 
Mr. C. F. FIsH. 
It will be seen that each Section has met four times, with 
the exception of the Zoological, which met three times. 
On the whole the past winter has been productive of much 
good work in the different Sections, and has shown how a 
division of subjects tends more and more to the production of 
valuable Papers, not perhaps as many as in former years, but as 
many as we can expect from a local Society. 
The thanks of the Committee are due to those Members 
who, by Papers and constant attendance at the Sectional 
Meetings, have helped to keep alive week by week the interest 
and welfare of our Society—a Society which has never slackened 
work since it was founded in 1871. 
Your Committee have met sixteen times during the past 
year for the transaction of the Society’s business, and they trust 
that what they have done has met with the approval of the 
Members in whose interest they endeavour to carry on their 
work, 
HENRY STOLTERFOTH, M.A., M.D., 
Scientific Secretary. 
