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libatrix, Epunda lichenea, Epunda nigra, and Mania maura. 



The indoor meetings have been devoted to the examination 

 and identification of recent "finds," and in discussions on 

 recent excursions. 



The fine specimen of Coralline exhibited by Mr. Guille 

 at the last annual meeting has since been identified by the 

 editor of Science Gossip as Eschara foliacea. 



In conclusion the committee would remind the members 

 that much remains to be done. Beetles, spiders, bees ; grasses 

 and mosses ; seaweeds and shells ; and the various interesting 

 sea creatures which teem in our waters ; all demand attention. 



Finally the committee gratefully acknowledge their 

 obligations to Messrs. Guille and Alles for the use of the room 

 for meetings, and also their valuable Library of Eeference. 



Mr. W. A. Luff, honorary treasurer, handed in his 

 accounts, which showed a substantial balance in hand, and 

 were audited by Messrs. A. Espinasson and K. L. Spencer. 

 The report was then adopted, and the accounts passed. 



The President then delivered the following address : — 



Taking into consideration the many difficulties against 

 which this Society has had to contend since its organization, 

 the report of its work and present position, which we have 

 just heard, is quite as satisfactory as could be expected. The 

 mere fact that 312 plants have been identified as indigenous to 

 our island, is sufficient to prove that its members have not 

 rested satisfied with merely meeting periodically and having 

 a pleasant chat together in these rooms; for many of the 

 plants entered in this long list are not only of extreme rarity 

 but of extreme minuteness, and they could only have been 

 found out in their hidden recesses, by the most diligent search, 

 and a thorough knowledge of structural botany. In judging 

 of its work thus far, it cannot be fairly compared with its 

 older and greatly more favoured sister societies on either side 

 of the Channel. The youth of our association, its paucity of 



