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By the PRESIDENT. 



(Read at Dorchester on February 10th, 1892.) 



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S E are indebted to our fellow member, Mr. W. B. 

 Barrett, for the discovery of this very rare 

 Chara, for which only one other British 

 locality can be claimed. Mr. Barrett gathered 

 a few fragments of it on the shore of the Fleet in 

 the autumn of 1889, which he submitted for 

 identification to the Messrs. Groves, the eminent 

 authorities on the family CharacesB ; they 

 decided it to be Lamprothanmus alopecuroides, and asked 

 me to procure it for them in a living state, instead of a shore 

 derelict. As the season was advanced I deferred doing so until the 

 succeeding autumn. Having obtained from Lord Ilchester the kind 

 loan of his swankeeper and one of his boats, I dredged from 

 the Decoy to Langton Herring in company with Mr. Nelson 

 Richardson and the Rev, R. P. Murray, where we disembarked and 



