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be that either they are not the remains of the 

 trees near the old chapel, but a relic of the general 

 submerged forests of this coast, or else that there 

 has been a remarkable change in level there- 

 abouts in very recent years, of which there is no 

 trace elsewhere. If any of our members care to 

 look into the matter, it is worth an excursion 

 from Holyhead. The shores of the lagoon seem 

 rich in botany, especially the rare Inula 

 crithmoides." 



Prof. Herdman, F.R.S., communicated the Annual 

 Report of the investigations carried on during 

 1902, in connection with the Lancashire Sea 

 Fisheries 'Committee (see " Transactions," p. 87). 



The seventh meeting of the seventeenth session was 

 held at University College, on Friday, June 12th, 1903. 

 The President in the chair. 



1. Dr. Traquair, Keeper of the Natural History Depart- 

 ment, Science and Art Museum, Edinburgh, lectured 

 before the Society on " The Earliest Records of 

 Vertebrate Life.'' The lecture was of great scientific 

 importance, including much of Dr. Traquair's most 

 recent work ; and it is hoped that the paper will be 

 published in full in the Transactions of the Society 

 for next Session. 



The eighth meeting of the seventeenth session was a 

 Field Meeting, held jointly with the Liverpool Geological 

 Society, at Martin Mere, near Southport, on Saturday, 



