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THE AUGUST MEETING. 



In view of the practical impossibility, owing to the 

 continued war, of holding a meeting this year in con- 

 junction with an outing, the Hon. Secretary has consulted 

 with Mr. A. Cowan as President, Mr. W. B. Cranfield, 

 Treasurer, and Dr. F. W. Stansfield, with the view of 

 transacting the necessary business with the minimum of 

 trouble and expense. To this end they have approved 

 the insertion of a notification in the present Gazette, that 

 no formal meeting will be held, and that in default of any 

 objection on the part of other members of the Committee, 

 the usual resolution relating to the passing of the balance 

 sheet after audit, acceptance of the Reports, election of 

 all the officers en tnasst as before, and the allocation of ten 

 guineas to the Editor of the Gazette for his services and 

 contributions in that connection in 1915-16, will be 

 recorded as passed at a pro formci meeting held at the Hon. 

 Secretary's house on August 7th, 1916, precisely as was 

 done last year. The report of that meeting will then be 

 embodied in the September Gazette, and no other notice 

 than this will be previously issued. For order's sake, the 

 Members of the Committee, other than those named, are 

 invited to confirm this arrangement on receipt of the June 

 Gazette, silence, however, being assumed as acquiescence. 

 C. T. D. 



OUR FRONTISPIECE. 



POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE REVOLVENS. 



In this beautiful fern, wild examples of which have been 

 repeatedly found, we have a striking example of an 

 unusual type of variation, which is the more curious as the 

 rolling up of the frond contravenes one of the ordinary 

 laws of foliose growth. Normally, a leaf or a frond in the 

 process of growth expands on lines which present the 

 maximum area to the light upon the stimulating action of 

 which so much, in plant life, depends. Here, however, 



