SECTIONAL REPORTS. 



BOTANICAL. 



One Meeting only of the Section has taken place during 

 the past Session. The subject chosen for consideration at this 

 Meeting was "The genus Acacta, with special reference to the 

 species sold in Chester Market." 



Mr. J. D. SiDDALL, Chairman of the Section, contributed 

 the Paper, which was admirably illustrated by a fine collection of 

 living and herbarium specimens contributed by Mr. G. P. Miln, 

 Secretary of the Section ; and also by a series of dissections of 

 the leaf and flower structures made by the Students attending 

 Mr. Siddall's Botany Class The attendance of members 

 was good, and all seemed much interested. 



But although only this one Thursday Evening was available 



for a Meeting of the Botanical Section proper, the affiliated 



Paxton Society has held regular Saturday Evening Meetings 



throughout the Session, at which Papers, as follows, have been 



given to larger audiences than in any previous year: — 



1894. 

 Jan. 6 — "The importance in Nature of the lower forms of Animal and 

 Vegetable Life," illustrated by Examples and Diagrams, by 



Mr. J. D. SiDDALL. 



,, 20— "Present aspects of Horticultural Education," by Mr. T.Redington 

 Feb. 3 — " The Culture of Vegetables for Exhibition," by Mr. John Wynne. 



,, 17 — " Form and Colour in Nature," by Mr. E. J. Baillie, F.L.S. 

 Mar. 3 — " Horticulture — some of its aspects," by Mr. F. N. Barnes, Eaton. 



,, 17 — ''Recent experiments in the formation of Mushroom Beds," by 

 Mr. John Taylor. 

 Apr. 7 — "Notes on Spring Bedding," by Mr. John Weaver. 



,, 21 — Exhibition of Spring Flowers by Members. 



The Fruit and Chrysanthemum Exhibition organised by 

 the Paxton Society in the Town Hall last November, was a 

 splendid success in every way. There is, therefore, no reason 

 to think that the interests of this Section have suffered by the 

 new arrangements necessitated by the two Serial Courses of 

 Lectures in Geology and Astronomy. On the contrary, the 

 success of these courses has attracted better audiences to all 

 the Museum Meetings, Botanical and otherwise. 



G. P. MILN, 



April 26xh, 1894. Secretary 



