1902-1903.] 71 



by the members in turn, at which the structure, growth, and 

 propagation of Ferns in general were first dealt with, and 

 afterwards the plants of this group recorded in the " Flora of 

 North-East Ireland " were carefully treated of. These meet- 

 ings were fairly well attended, and as the mode of conducting 

 enabled each member to contribute to the general fund of 

 information, we are assured that the results have been of very 

 great benefit to members, and will be largely availed of during 

 the ensuing Summer Session. 



(Signed) Alex. Milligan, Hon. Secretary. 



Report of Librarian : — 



We have received during the past year almost all the 

 Reports and Proceedings from the Corresponding Societies as 

 usual, and also the usual large number of volumes, of great 

 interest, from the American Scientific Institutes, to all of 

 which I have sent our last Report and Proceedings, and from 

 many of them have received thanks for the same. 



I have also had applications from some of them for back 

 numbers, so as to complete their sets of our Proceedings — the 

 British Museum Natural History Library, The Directors of 

 the Geological Survey of the United States of America, 

 Barrow-in-Furness Naturalists' Field Club, and others. To 

 all such applications I have complied by sending the numbers 

 wanted, so far as I possibly could, but as numbers 1, 2, 4, and 

 5 are all out of print I could not send them to the British 

 Museum Library, as I should like to have done, so if any of 

 the Members have spare copies of any of these numbers, I wish 

 they would let me know, that we might be able to have a 

 complete set of our Proceedings in the Natural History 

 Library of that Institution. 



I got 50 copies each of our 15 Appendices stitched and 

 covered for the late meeting of the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, and we were thus enabled to sell a 

 quantity of them to the visitors durinpf the meeting. 



