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Part X. Marine Algae.” Although this list "will certainly be more 
copious and complete than any hitherto published, there is no 
doubt that any resident on the coast who could give attention all 
the year round to this subject, and especially would examine 
microscopically the Chlorospermece, and the smaller parasitic, 
or epiphytal Algae, might add considerably to it, as most of 
the additions made are the result of casual and desultory 
visits to the seaside, rather than of continuous and systematic 
observation. 
No less than six sj>ecies of plants have been added to our 
Norfolk Plora this year. These, together with a considerable 
number of varieties, will be found treated of in “ Botanical 
Notes,” by Miss Barnard, Mr. Bennett, and the Eev. E. F. 
Linton. 
Our finances are in a sound condition, for although we have 
reduced our balance on the general account this year by £i 4s. 9d., 
this arises entirely from extra expenditure on the last number of 
‘ Transactions ’ of a kind not likely to occur again ; and we have 
besides, nearly forty pounds to the credit of our Life Membership 
Fund. Our Library is, thanks to the gifts of many friends, steadily 
increasing in number and value; and our Journal Committee hope 
to issue a number of our ‘ Transactions ’ quite equal to the average 
of those of former years both in interest and quantity. 
We have had three excursions this season; — one, in June, to 
Iloveton, where tlie original locality of Carex paradoxa, for 
which it was first recorded in Norfolk, was revisited and verified ; 
a second to Ipswich and Felixstowe, under the guidance of 
Dr. J. E. Taylor, the events of which have already been fully 
described in the ‘ Eastern Daily Press ’ of the date ; and a third 
to Claxton and Surlingham. All of these excursions were 
successful and pleasant, and the cordial thanks of our Society 
are due to all our kind friends who helped to make them so. 
I am now going to ask you to consider for a few minutes some 
observations which have recently been published on what is called 
Symbiosis (or “ Life in Common ”) of lower animals and pfimts. 
Of course we all understand what a true Parasite is; — an organism, 
