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from the wind, and several more useful records were here obtained. 
Later we visited Peel, where the party escaped for a while from the 
elements by visiting a kipper factory! The return journey to Douglas 
was interrupted for a brief visit to Tynwald Hill. 
Our last day, Friday, 30th June, was fine and sunny. The party 
visited some interesting ground around old mine workings at Eairy. 
Several plants not seen on the other days were here noted. After a 
picnic lunch we walked over the northern slopes of Granite Mountain to 
Barrule. Some members, feeling energetic, climbed to the summit of 
South Barrule, 1585 ft., whilst others explored the valley near the road. 
An excellent tea was much enjoyed in the Inn at Foxdale, after which 
we returned to Douglas where we bade a sad farewell to our able Leader, 
who, though not a botanist, had most patiently put up with all our 
eccentricities and who had so admirably conducted us to as wide an 
assortment of the Manx flora as one could hope to see in six days. Both 
to him and to Mr. Howarth the Society owes a very big “Thank you I” 
The arduous task of recording was appropriately and efficiently 
undertaken by Mr. D. E. Allen, the Society’s Recorder for v.-c. 71. Mr 
Allen is preparing a paper for Watsoiiia, which will include the more 
important discoveries that were made during this Meeting. Finally this 
brief account of what must have been one of the Society’s most successful 
field meetings cannot close without an expression of our thanks to the 
driver of the coach, to whose wholehearted co-operation, skill and cheer- 
fulness this success can in no small part be attributed. 
E. Milne-Redhead. 
JUJvY 14th to 16th, 1950. THE 1»EAK DISTRICT. 
Leaders: R. H. Hall, F. T. Hall and Miss E. Carey. 
On Friday, July 14th, 24 members assembled at the Savoy Hotel, 
Buxton, for a week-end field meeting in the Peak District. 
A preliminary meeting was held in the lounge of the Savoy Hotel 
at 8 p.m. on Friday evening when Mr. R. H. Hall explained that the 
main object of the excursions ))lanned was to exjalore certain areas 
which had not been worked for many years, with a view to checking 
old records aird making further contributions to the work of the revision 
of Linton’s Flora of Derbyshire . It was pointed out that the accom- 
plishment of this object would make it impossible to visit any of the 
well-known localities for Peakland rarities, although members staying 
on after the official excursions would have the opportunity to make 
private visits to these spots. The leader then outlined the programme 
for Saturday and Sunday and gave a resume of plant records rvhich it 
was ho]>ed to check on those occasions. 
Saturday, 15th July. 
In the morning the resident party, together with five guests from 
the Buxton Field Club, tra\'elled by special coach to Carsington Pasture 
near Brassington, and two hours were spent exploring broken ground 
