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PROCEEDINGS OF TI1E 
Other members of the Council — 
George E. Dennes, Esq. 
Joseph Freeman, Esq. 
^Eneas Mac Intyre, LL.D., 
Edward Charlesworth, Esq. 
F.G.S. 
D.C.Macreight, M.D.,F.L.S. 
Henry A. Meeson, Esq. 
James Mitchell, LL. D., 
Charles Johnson, Esq. 
F.L.S. 
F.G.S. 
T. B. Salter, M.D. 
C. E. Sowerby, Esq. A.L.S. 
W. H. White, Esq. 
The President then appointed the two following gentlemen 
as Vice Presidents. 
D. C. Macreight, M.D., F.L.S. j Charles Johnson, Esq. 
After which the Chairman addressed the meeting, congratu- 
lating them upon the generally flourishing condition of Botani- 
cal Science especially in this country, and enumerated the ad- 
vantages to be derived from a general study of Botany, and 
those likely to proceed from the establishment of this Society. 
J. E. Gray, Esq. F.R.S., President in the Chair. 
A Paper was read by Dr. BSneas Mac Intyre, F.L.S, en- 
titled “A Notice of Plants growing spontaneously on and 
about Warley Common , in Essex.” 
The investigation is restricted to a radius of less than two 
miles from the south eastern angle of the Common. But 
this area exhibits a great diversity of soil, and a consequent 
variety of vegetation. 
The Common itself is an elevated and gravelly plain, with 
two or three ponds on its surface, and a branching bog near 
its northern edge. These ponds and boggy hollows, as well 
as the shady lanes and watery ditches, towards Brook Street 
and Brentwood, teem with interesting botanical specimens. 
The three diversities which have just been mentioned, 
namely, the dry part of the Common, the watery parts 
thereof, and the adjoining lanes, nourishing many plants 
peculiar to themselves, might be designated respectively, and 
DECEMBER 1st. 
