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[Proe. B.N.F.C., 



Two very interesting and useful books were purchased for the 

 Section — Loudon's Encyclopedia of Plants, and Moss' Geographical 

 Distribution of Vegetation in Somerset (Bath and Bridgeivater 

 District). 



The best thanks of the Committee are given to the Members 

 and friends of the Club who kindly sent us special plants during 

 the Session. 



It is with sincere regret that we record the death during the 

 year of one of our most accomplished local botanists, Mr. John 

 Henry Davies (1838-1909). Mr. Davies became a member of the 

 Field Club in the Session 1870-71, and continued his membership 

 as long as he lived, a period of fully 38 years. As a Bryologist he 

 stood in the front rank, and his knowledge of the flowering plants 

 of our district was also of an unique kind. Suitable obituary 

 references concerning him have already appeared in the pages of 

 the Journal of Botany and of the Irish Naturalist. To the latter 

 journal he was a constant contributor of botanical papers and 

 notes from the date of its inception. In the work of our section 

 he took the most lively interest, and of the work of our more 

 junior Members he was always keenly appreciative. 

 (Signed) 



N. Carrot hers, Hon. Sec. of the Section. 



Report of the Geological Section. 



The Committee beg to report that the Geological Section 

 held seven Excursions during the past year, when the following 

 localities were visited : — Lyle Hill and Templepatrick, 15th May ; 

 Scawt Hill, 19th June; Ballymena District, 21st August; Cloughfin, 

 nth September; Woodburn Glen, 25th September; Moira, 9th 

 October ; and Squire's Hill, 6th November. The main object of 

 the first two Excursions was the investigation of the Tertiary- 

 Basalts ; that of the third, the Glacial deposits of the Braid Valley, 

 and the Rhyolites in the neighbouring district ; while the last four 

 were devoted to the study of our Cretaceous rocks. 



