1906. 
Praeger. — A Conference on Vegetatmi Study. 
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A. G. Taiisley followed with a good description of the Heath 
formation of the Lower Greensand in the south-east of England. 
Special attention was paid to the regeneration of vegetation 
on surfaces disturbed by quarrying, and the various stages 
were carefully traced. 
Prof. Oliver came last with diagrams (quadrats and transects) 
and photographs illustrating the vegetation of the Breton 
salt-maish at which he and Mr. Tansley had worked last 
summer. He dealt especially with the growth and distribu- 
tion of Salicor7iia and Snceda. 
A vote of thanks to Prof. Harvey Gibson for allowing us to 
meet in his department brought our meeting to a close. 
Dr. Pethybridge and I returned much pleased vvith this 
little conference. It is seldom that one has the opportunity 
of sitting on a committee of which ever}' member is actively and 
practically engaged on the work which forms the subject of 
the committee's deliberations. The Central Committee for 
the Survey and Study of British Vegetation is thoroughly in 
earnest, and we may look forward to some useful results 
arising from its labours in the new and as yet not generally 
understood field of ecology. 
DubHn. 
NEWS GLEANINGS. 
Richard Kearton in Dublin. 
The Irish Society for the Protection of Birds is to be congratulated on 
the success of its first public appearance. On December 5 Richard 
Kearton lectured, under its auspices, on " Wild Nature's Ways," and we 
have never seen a larger audience in the Royal Dublin Society's theatre, 
which was packed from floor to ceiling. The fact that Mr. Kearton held 
his" audience for over an hour and a half, and that most of them came 
away wishing for more, speaks volumes for his discourse and lantern 
illustrations, and points, we trust, to a general interest in real natural 
history. 
