FTRT.l) MEETTNC'.Sj 1949 
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FIELD MEETINGS, 1949 
PROGRAMME. 
April 1st — British Museum (Natural History). 
May 20th to 23rd — Taunton. 
May 28th — Birmingham District. 
June 11th — Breadalbane (Perthshire). 
June 24th to July 4th — Carlisle and District. 
July 15th to 19th — West Norfolk. 
August 13th — Brook (Godaiming). 
September 17th — Basingstoke Canal. 
APRIL 1st. BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 
Leader : Mr A. H. G. Alston. 
About 30 members of the Society visited the Natural History Museum 
on 1st April, where a sj)ecial exhibit had been put out in the General 
Herbarium. The exhibit dealt mainly with the work of the older British 
botanists, and included some letters from John Ray. Dr J. Rams- 
bottom, the Keeper of Botany, made an opening speech in which he 
described the recovery of the Department after the damage done dur- 
ing the war. 
MAY 20th to 23rd. TAUNTON. 
Leader: Mr E. G. Neal. 
On the evening of 20th May 30 members and 3 guests assembled in 
the County Hotel, Taunton, to meet the leader, Mr E. G. Neal, who, 
although not a member of our Society, nobly undertook to show us 
some of the botanically interesting "areas near Taunton. 
Well known to some of us through his classic work on the badger 
(Meles meles L.), Mr Neal is an all-round naturalist, and the Society 
must consider itself fortunate to have had his extensive knowledge of 
the botany and ecology of the district placed at its disposal. 
Both the Vice-President, Mr A. H. G. Alston, and the Hon. Gene- 
ral and Field Secretary, Miss M. S. Campbell, were present, and the 
visiting members were introduced to Mr A. D. Hallam, who kindly 
assi.sted Mr Neal with the leadership. The programme for the week- 
end was outlined and the topography and geology as well as the botany 
of the places to be visited were briefly described. 
The following morning, in fine weather, members assembled at the 
bus station and went some three miles S.E. of Taunton to the turning 
for Thurlbear, a hamlet to the north of the Blackdown Hills. The party 
then proceeded on foot, first along pleasant lanes, and later up a steep. 
