306 MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 
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arrangements for visiting Greenland, a meeting of the Committee was 
held on the 4th of April, in London, and it was there resolved that the 
sum of £100 voted by the British Association for the purposes of this 
exploration, be handed to Mr. Whymper on his giving a written 
undertaking to fulfil the conditions laid down by the Association, as 
for as lay in his power. In addition to this grant, Mr. 1 Whymper was 
further assisted by a grant of £200 from the Government Grant 
Committee of the Koyal Society." Mr. Whymper started from Co- 
penhagen about the 20th of April, taking with him, as assistant, Dr. 
Robert Brown, a gentleman already well known for his explorations m 
north-western America, especially as to the natural history of British 
Columbia. Since the expedition left Copenhagen no intelligence from 
it has been received by this Committee. The description of the plant- 
remains from North Greenland, which have been already brought to 
this country, has been completed by Professor Oswald Heer, and Ins 
work on the ' Fossil Flora of the Polar Regions ' is now nearly printed, 
and will be published in a short time. 
On the Leaf-beds of Hampshire Basin. 
Mr. W. Stephen Mitchell read the report of the " Committee ap- 
pointed to investigate the Leaf-beds of the Lower Bagshot Series in t ie 
Hampshire Basin!" He pointed out that there was a better chance o 
determining the remains from these beds than those from many others. 
They were more perfect in themselves, and many of them had very 
characteristic forms. The forms he adduced (which he admitted were 
the best) were several specimens nearly approaching Cussouia Nata su, 
in its leaf, and separately a fruit very like that of C.panicnlata; TW 
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foliata 
agreed with those of the Sabal. He laid stress on the tact w 
know the age of the beds from stratigraphical independent of botani 
evidence. 
On the Occurrence of Aster Salignus, Willd., i* 
Pen, Cambridgeshire. By Mr. P. Hiern. 
Wicken Fen, about ten miles from Cambridge, is a large, *i o. ^ 
cultivated tract of peat overlying a basin of gnult, producing s 
