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a valuable collection of dried and prepared flowers from the Rev. E. 

 Linton and another of Rubi from the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, the 

 well known specialist in these plants. Other specimens have been 

 given by Mrs. Nicholson and Miss Firbank, and the Bournemouth 

 Lily by the late Mr. A. Scott. 



Thursday, Nov. 18th, J909. A paper was read at 

 aP f I -l <■ a 4*3° * n ^e Society's Room by Miss C. Agnes 

 contributed. R oope r on "Symbiosis in Plants." Feb. 3rd, 1910. 

 Dr. Dixon read a paper on the " Life History of a Fern," also in 

 the Society's Room, at 4.30. March 17th. Miss C. Agnes Rooper 

 read a paper on " English Tree Forms," in the Society's Room at 

 4.30, illustrated by lantern slides. 



Owing to the wet weather so prevalent last summer 

 . but few excursions were made. They were as 



fcxcursions. follows :— April nth, to Arnewood, near New 

 Milton, when Miss Ida Roper, f.l.s., was one of the party. 

 April 12th, to Swanage. Miss Ida Roper, f.l.s., was again 

 present. Four clumps of gladiolus were discovered by Mr. 

 Sherring, f.l.s., in a new locality. May 7th, to Stanpit, Christ- 

 church. August 6th, to Corfe Castle, whence the party walked by 

 Scotland Farm to Wareham. Bartsia viscosa was found by Mrs. 

 Nicholson, and a white specimen of the prunella vulgaris by the late 

 Mr. A. Scott. August 10th, a general excursion to Oberwater in 

 combination with the Zoological Section. Lastly, September 10th, 

 in combination with the Geographical Section to Corfe, when Miss 

 Firbank found a new and pretty variety of the calluna vulgaris. 



(geographical Saturn, 



Chairman: James E. Liddiard, Esq., F.R.G.S. 



At the first meeting of this section, on Nov. 27th, 

 e ,JI 1909, an illustrated lecture was given by the 



chairman on "The lovely Islands of the Fiji group, 

 and their People." 



In opening the meeting the chairman said it was encouraging 

 to note the growing insistence of the necessity for fuller geographical 

 knowledge, for in future none can be regarded as a man or woman 

 of real education and culture to whom geography, in no narrow 

 sense, is virtually a closed book. History cannot be intelligently 

 understood without a clear knowledge of the geography of history. 



