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much hampered by the absence on active service of Mr. A. R. Horwood, 
the general editor of the Flora. 
. Two papers by Mr. G. J. V. Bemrose, an officer in the Museum, were 
printed in the Transactions of the Society: one on ‘'The Adventitive Flora 
of Leicester and District ’ and one on ‘ The Flora of Rutland.’ '* 
Mr. Bemrose was appointed Curator of the Museums and the Art 
Gallery of Stoke-on-Trent in 1930. 
Two notable additions were made to the Herbarium about this time. 
Mr. Horwood’s collection of Leicestershire plants was purchased by 
Mr. Turner and presented to the County Herbarium. A very unex- 
pected donation was received from the National Museum of Wales— 
specimens collected by the Rev. W. H. Coleman and Miss Kidger of 
Ashby-de-la-Zouch. 
Geology and Botany are two scientific subjects which have been most 
continuously and successfully treated by sections of the Literary and 
Philosophical Society. Other scientific sections have done good work, 
but only one has rivalled them in years of working. The work of no 
other has had such results as the sequence of treatises on Geology or 
the Flora of Leicestershire. 
There has nearly always since 1849 been a section for the study of 
animal life, but its name has often changed : so has its relation to kindred 
studies. Zoology and Botany have been separate sections ; they have 
been simply joined as ‘ Zoology and Botany’; joined as ‘ Natural 
History’; joined as ‘ Biology (Zoology and Botany)’; and then very 
soon a new Section, ‘ Zoology,’ was started which was separate from 
‘ Biology (Zoology and Botany).’? The chief object of the new Section 
was to study the Fauna of Leicestershire. From 1894 to 1915 there 
was a separate section for Entomology. 
To give a just appreciation of the work done by the students of the 
various branches of Biology is not within the capacity of the compiler 
of these pages, and it seems to him that the generally abbreviated records 
of their papers on very various subjects hardly give sufficient material 
for such an appreciation. But something should be said about the 
duplication of the Section for Biology, and the working of the new 
Section. 
At the first meeting of the new Section its Secretary, Mr. Montagu 
Browne, F.Z.S., urged that it should have some definite scheme of work 
and suggested that the MSS. notes of the late James Harley, * our 
Leicestershire Gilbert White,’ should be arranged and edited for publica- 
tion. In the report of the Section 1883-84 it is stated that the published 
lists of Potter, Babington and Macaulay, and unpublished lists of Harley, 
Davenport, Ellis, Widdowson, Ingram, Walker and others, have been 
carefully gone through, and are now being edited by the Secretary. In 
the report 1884-85 it is stated that the publication of ‘ The Vertebrate 
Animals of Leicestershire,’ by the Secretary, Montagu Browne, F.Z.S., had 
begun in the Zoologist. In 1889 Mr. Montagu Browne published The 
Vertebrate Animals of Leicestershire and Rutland. In the preface he said 
18 Tyansactions, xxviii, 45-72, and xxix, 21-25. 
