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from its economic standpoint, and said that it would prove an 

 interesting study for the members of Local Natural History 

 Societies at a time of year when their botanists had little else 

 to do. Mr. Brooks said that the workers in laboratories 

 would be glad of all the material they could get, and that they 

 would be much indebted to the field-workers for supplies. The 

 Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, Messrs. W. Mark Webb, and W. P. 

 D. Stebbing also spoke. Prof. Gregory, from the chair, gave the 

 thanks of the meeting to Mr. "Wager for his paper, and to the 

 artists and photographers for their very interesting pictures. Mr. 

 "Wager, in acknowledging the vote of thanks, said he hoped the 

 subject might receive more attention at the hands of the local 

 societies in the future and that reports of their doings may be given 

 in at the next conference. Many problems in biology could be 

 helped by the Study of Mycology. 



Sir Daniel Morris (Bournemouth) introduced the question 

 of " Co-ordination of the Work of Local Scientific Societies." He 

 thought such procedure would tend to make one strong society in a 

 town instead of several small and struggling societies. As an illus- 

 tration he instanced the Bournemouth Society as being organized into 

 seven sections, each having its own officers and doing its work in 

 its own way, but at times, when a section had something to show, 

 it was able to arrange a ixieeting and interest the whole of the three 

 hundred members. The strength of the large society also, he 

 thought, would receive greater attention. Dr. Tempest Anderson, 

 Mr. Thompson, and others supported the suggestion, but Mr, W. 

 Whitaker thought it quite immaterial so long as work was done. 

 Undoubtedly joint meetings were good, Botany and Zoology for 

 instance, should go together and help each other. Prof. Gregory 

 hoped that Sir Daniel Morris would bring forward a formal motion 

 at the next conference, and that it would then be fully debated. 



Mr. W. Mark Webb read a paper on "The Protection of Plants." 

 Having referred to Mr. A. R. Horwood's paper on "The Extinction 

 of Cryptogamic Plants" read before the congress of the South- 

 Eastern Union of Scientific Societies at Guildford, in 1910 {Soath- 

 Easteni NaturaUst, 1910, pp. 56-86), and taking the causes there 

 enumerated, he said we might leave those coining under the 

 heading of " climatic " aside. But the others, which are largely 

 due to the effects of civilization, such as drainage, agriculture, 

 deafforestation and so forth, which can only be regarded as 

 necessary evils, might be overcome by the formation of 

 reservations of areas, left so far as possible in their natural state. 



