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Librarian's Report. 



Two or three Societies have been added to our List for 

 exchange of Proceedings. 



We are indebted to Mr. John Adams, of Dublin, for copies 

 of several of his papers read before the Royal Irish Academy and 

 the Royal Dublin Society ; and to the Irish Board of Agriculture 

 for the Geological Survey's Memoir on " The Inter-basaltic Rocks 

 of North- East of Ireland." The (Hub's thanks are hereby conveyed 

 to them for their gifts. 



(Signed) 



Sylvanus Wear, Librarian. 



Report of the Botanical Section. 



Four meetings in connection with this Section were held 

 during the Winter Session. At the first meeting held on the 4th 

 December, Mr. S. A. Bennett, B.A., B.Sc, read a very interesting 

 paper entitled " Notes on Plant Associations from Slemish, Co. 

 Antrim,'' illustrated by typical mounted specimens from the 

 locality. 



The next meeting was held on the 8th January, when Mr. 

 H. L. Orr gave an instructive description of Pinus sylvestris, and 

 described in brief many other members of cone-bearing plants. 

 Many nicely mounted types were used to illustrate his remarks. 

 Mr. S. Wear afterwards exhibited on the screen a fine series of 

 lantern slides, made from photos, taken by himself, illustrating 

 some typical western Irish plants and their habitats. At this 

 meeting most of the members saw for the first time a fine healthy 

 growing plant of the Mediterranean Heath. 



At the meeting held on the 5th February, in conjunction with 

 the Zoological Section, we were favoured by the presence of Mr. 

 R LI. Praeger, M.R.I. A., who gave us a lecture entitled "What do 

 we mean by a 'Native' Species?" In the course of his address, 

 after pointing out the general character of the European flora, and 

 tracing the progress of human interference with the pre-existing 



