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NEWS OF OTHER SOCIETIES 
SOUTH ESSEX NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 
The South Essex Natural History Society holds field meetings during 
the summer in South Essex. Any B.S.B.I. member wishing to visit the 
district, which lias a good general and maritime flora, can obtain pai'- 
ticulars from the Secretary, Mr. S. T. Jermyn, 98 Western Road, 
Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. Visitors are welcome. 
SOUTH LONDON BOTANICAL INSTITUTE 
The Institute maintains an important herbarium (including the col- 
lections of Joseph Woods, Frederick Townsend, W. H. Beeby and A. 0. 
Hume), an excellent library, and garden. Rambles and visits are ar- 
ranged on Saturdays during the summer months to places within easy 
reach of London, and lectures given on about ten Friday evenings dur- 
ing the winter. Members of the B.S.B.I. are invited to visit the In- 
stitute and to attend the lectures and rambles. Application may be 
made to the Curator at 323 Norwood Road, London, S.E.24, for a copy 
of the current programme. 
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PLANT TAXONOMY 
Full particulars of the Association were given in Year Booh, 1951, 
pages 115-116, where aims and terms of membership were stated. Six 
numbers of the bi-monthly publication Taxon have now been received 
by members. The financial agent for Great Britain and British Over- 
seas Territories, through whom subscriptions can now be paid, is Mr. 
A. A. Bullock, The Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, 
Surrey. 
THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND 
BEN LAWERS AND BEN GHLAS 
With the aid of its Mountainous Country Fund, the Trust acquired 
the upper Southern Slopes of Ben Lawers and Ben Ghlas, comprising 
about 7,500 acres, in August of last year (1950). This Fund has been 
built up as the result of the great generosity of one man, the late Mr. 
P. J. H. Unna, who was an experienced mountaineer and who was 
devoted to Scottish mountains. His ambition was to see the truly 
magnificent stretches of mountainous country opened to the public 
to walk over and to climb. In the case of Ben Lawers, he was also par- 
ticularly interested in the Alpine Flora. 
The Trust is most anxious to do what is possible to preserve the flora 
on Ben Lawers, and it is considered that this will best be brought about 
by making it more widely known how selfish and anti-social it is to up- 
root and even pick many of the rarer species. 
The Trust has been criticised for permitting the North of Scotland 
Hydro-Electric Board’s Lawers project which, amongst other things, 
authorises the laying of an aqueduct from East to West across the 
length of the Trust’s ground. Such criticism is unjustified in that this 
project received Parliamentary sanction four years ago. The Trust, in 
