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The lecture, which was illustrated by a fine and varied series 

 of extremely interesting lantern-slides, from photographs taken by 

 Dr. Dwerryhouse, was followed by a discussion in which the 

 following took part — Messrs. N. H. Foster, M.B.O.U.; Wm. Gray, 

 M.R.I.A. ; R. Welch, M.R.I.A. ; W. J. C. Tomlinson, and H. L. 

 Orr. Dr. Dwerryhouse having replied, the election of Rev. 

 Samuel B. Crooks to Membership terminated the meeting. 



"the ferns of ulster; how to grow, and where 

 to find them." 



At a meeting of the Botanical Section, held in the Museum 

 on Saturday, 19th February, Mr. W. H. Phillips gave an interesting 

 lecturette to the Members, in which he drew from his life-long 

 experience many valuable hints on the finding and growing of 

 Ferns. He particularly emphasized the tendency to produce 

 varieties inherent especially in the genera Polystichum, Athyrium, 

 and Scolopendrium, and urged Members to watch carefully for 

 plants which exhibited any aberration from the normal form, and 

 to grow these with a view to developing their abnormal peculiarities. 



'THE GEOLOGY OF WEYMOUTH AND THE COAST OF DORSETSHIRE. 



The Club's Geological Section held a meeting in the Museum 

 on 23rd February, Mr. William Gray, M.R.I.A., presiding, when 

 the Chairman of the Section, Mr. W. J. C. Tomlinson, gave a 

 lecture on the above subject. 



Mr. Tomlinson said that the rocks of Dorsetshire belong to 

 what geologists call the stratified division of the rock systems. 

 Intrusions or extrusions of igneous character appear to be absent 

 from the county. In the bordering County of Devon rocks of 

 plutonic character are well developed in the Dartmoor area, and 

 still farther west, in Cornwall, igneous rocks of variable character 

 are a marked feature of the Land's End country. The formations 



