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all before it, and the occupiers had to move to the other side of the 

 hill. In Omey Island, off the Galway coast, the sand has covered 

 up a village, and the natives now come out of holes like rabbits 

 out of burrows. In Inishmore, Aran, and at Errismore sands are 

 travelling southward out to sea. At Culbin, in Scotland, blown 

 sands overwhelmed an estate that was rented at ^6,000 per 

 annum. In the Kurische Nehrung a long narrow sandy neck of 

 land on the north coast of Germany, blowing sands buried, and 

 then left free, a church. The Merthyr Mawr sand-hills in 

 Glamorganshire cover an old town. 



The lecture was illustrated by a magnificent set of lantern 

 slides, taken mainly by the lecturer ; by a number of dune-building 

 plants sent by Mr. Manning, of Rosapenna, and by a large series 

 of land-shells, which live on sandy areas, exhibited by Mr. Stelfox. 

 At its conclusion Dr. A. R. Dwerryhouse addressed the meeting, 

 and, after the President's reply, the election of a junior member,. 

 Mr. Norman Carrothers, terminated the proceedings. 



PLANT COMMUNITIES. 



The Botanical Section commenced their Winter meetings on 

 Saturday, 25th November. The Chairman of the Section (Rev. 

 C. H. Waddell) presided. He intimated to the members present 

 that it had been decided to devote their meetings this Winter to 

 the study of the methods of plant ecology. With this end in view 

 the book just published by Mr. Tansley, of Cambridge, entitled 

 " Types of British Vegetation," would be used as a basis for 

 the lectures to be given at succeeding meetings of the Section. 

 Mr. \Y\ J. C. Tomlinson then gave the introductory lecture. 



An interesting interchange of views took place after the 

 delivery of the lecture, in which the Chairman and Messrs. S. A. 

 Bennett and N. Carrothers took part. 



