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forthcoming- work * Forty Years' Researches in British and 

 Anglo-Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire,' and have been 

 kindly lent by the publishers, Messrs. A. Brown & Sons. 



BOTANICAL SURVEY AT THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 



Yorkshire naturalists were 'well in it' at Southport. Repre- 

 sentatives from Bradford, Malton, Selby, Leeds, Huddersfield, 

 and Halifax were rarely absent from Section K, and they sat 

 througfh discussions with no end, papers of varying- merit, and 

 'semi-popular lectures.' The veterans were in the mood to 

 enjoy a well-earned leisure, but the young-er members had to be 

 in the fray, and, as might be expected, their topics had all 

 a bearing- on some aspect of botanical survey. 



Mr. Rankin (Leeds), in response to a request, brought the 

 subject of County Botanical Surveys before the Delegates' Con- 

 ference on the first day. An hour of the President (Sir N. 

 Lockyer) had rather taken the edge off the zest for botanical 

 matters. It was well that the reader was brief and to the point. 

 We hear that the paper is to be published and circulated for 

 consideration in quieter moments. At Tuesday's meeting the 

 delegates were again reminded of botanical survey, as it was 

 one of the subjects recommended for local societies in the 

 scheme submitted by Section E (Geography). 



On Friday afternoon ecological subjects were down for 

 Section K, but none from Yorkshire. An interesting paper was 

 given by Miss M. C. Slopes, who had observed the drying up of 

 a small tributary of the Thames, and during two years watched 

 the aquatic plants being replaced by land plants. The same after- 

 noon some of the Yorkshire representatives had a word to say 

 in connection with a paper read at Section E on the Afforestation 

 of the Waterworks' Gathering Grounds of Livei-pool. What 

 has been done at Lake Vyrnwy can be done in all our Yorkshire 

 valleys, and we should then have profitable woodland instead of 

 moors of low value. At another meeting a paper on the sand- 

 dune vegetation near Southport, b}' a Manchester botanist, was 

 nearly wrecked by an ardent local botanist telling how the 

 marram grass and the trees were regularly planted b}- the land- 

 owners. 



Tuesday was a busy day with Botanical Survey. Four 

 papers on it were read at Section E (Geography) and one at 

 Section K (Botany), while in the afternoon a large party 

 examined for themselves the sandhill plants between Southport 



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