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Report of the Botanical Section. 



The Committee of the Botanical Section are pleased to 

 report that this department of the Club's work has been carried 

 on during the past year with undiminished success. Our Members 

 were well represented at all the regular Club Excursions, and a 

 fair amount of work was done at each of them. Special attention 

 was given to Richhill, as the locality was entirely new to our 

 Members. The Valley of the Roe, Derryadd Bay, and Portavoe 

 also proved to be very interesting botanical centres. The rarer 

 plants observed in these districts will be found in the Reports of 

 the Excursions. 



The Geological Section had a number of Excursions during 

 the Summer in which many of our Members participated. 

 Some rare plants were noticed at these excursions, especially at 

 Templepatrick, where Draba muralis was found in quantity, 

 growing on a wall ; and at Moira a very fine colony of Dipsacus 

 sylvestris was pointed out to our Members by Mr. R. Bell, in a 

 station he found several years ago. Many of our individual 

 Members also accomplished good work independently, and a paper 

 embodying the results will be published, we hope, next year. 



One of our Members, Mr. S. Wear, devoted a good deal of 

 time in the early Summer to Plant Photography, and those who 

 had the privilege of seeing a few of his lantern-slides at our Annual 

 Conversazione in October, were deeply impressed with the 

 success that he had attained. Several of the views were photo- 

 graphs of exceedingly rare local plants taken in situ. 



Six Monthly Meetings were held during the Winter Session, 

 all of which were well attended by our Members. Abstract reports 

 of these meetings will be found in the Proceedings. The 

 Members of the Section were much indebted to Mr. Praeger for 

 his kindness in coming specially from Dublin to give an 

 address. 



