118 REPORTS. 



And now, ladies and gentlemen, having all too briefly and 

 imperfectly, I fear, sketched the excellent work done in the 

 past, and the directions the work may be profitably carried on 

 in the future, I beg to resign the honourable post you conferred 

 upon me two years ago ; to thank you for your unvarying 

 kindness and courtesy, and to express the earnest hope that 

 the brilliant achievements of the past may be eclipsed by those 

 of the future. 



Mr. Sharp then proposed Dr. Aikman as President of the 

 Society, remarking on his eminent scientific attainments. Mr. 

 Collenette seconded the nomination. Dr. Aikman, M.D., 

 CM., L.P.C.S., was then unanimously elected President. 

 Mr. G. Derrick was re-elected Hon. Secretary and Mr. W. 

 Luff, Treasurer. 



The ballot resulted in the selection of the following 

 Council : — 



Mr. J. L. Pitts. E. C. Ozanne, Esq. 



Mr. C. G. De La Mare. Mr. F. E. Holiday. 



Mr. H. E. Marquand. Mr. P. Mabbs. 



The meeting terminated at 9.45. 



REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL SECTION. 



The Botanical Section can report very satisfactory results 

 for this season ; it is, however, greatly in need of reinforce- 

 ments. 



Mr. E. D. Marquand, A.L.S., vice-president of the Society, 

 is steadily prosecuting his researches in Alderney. 



In Guernsey some of our rarer plants have been noted. 

 Lychnis githago, Corn-cockle, was abundant in a heavy crop of 

 vetches in the Mount Durand district of St. Martin's. Datura 

 stramonium, Thorn Apple, occurred in a cultivated field at the 

 Naftiaux, St. Andrew's. I have now met with it in almost all 

 the country parishes. Lin aria r opens, Striped Toadflax, made 

 a pretty show at one of its old stations near Ozanne's Mill. 



In the spring I found Gymnogramma leptophylla growing 

 as strongly and as abundantly as ever in the hedge at St. 

 Saviour's. 



We are adding to the Guernsey list three plants this year, 

 viz. : Spiroea ulmaria, L., Meadow Sweet. In 1886 I found 

 it growing in a meadow beyond Les Tourelles, St. Peter's, but 

 as it was near a farmhouse, it was thought it might have been 

 planted there ; but this year, on the occasion of the Society's 



