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president’s address. 
memory of Smith, Lindley, Hooker, ancl other Norfolk worthies, 
may revive their flagging energies during the present year, 
and induce them to try their best to outdo their zoological 
rivals. 
At the October meeting Mr. C. Plowright sent some notes on 
Schceleria clelastrina , a parasitic fungus found on the Veronica 
a't'vensis. 
At the final meeting in February Mr. Bidwell exhibited a sample 
of the Taro Powder of the Sandwich Islands, a starchy substance 
prepared from the root of an araceous plant, Colocaria esculenta , 
and which makes very good puddings when baked with eggs and 
sugar ; the acrid properties peculiar to the roots of all plants of this 
order being destroyed under the influence of heat. The root of 
our common Arum is also edible when sufficiently roasted. 
At the same meeting Mr. O. Cordcr sent some notes on the 
Hellebores, with cut specimens of several species. He exhibited, 
also, a pot of Narcissus cyclaminem, a native of Portugal, that had 
been lost sight of for two hundred and fifty years until its 
re-discovery by Mr. Tait of Oporto. 
Mr. Foord’s paper on Amber, illustrated by means of several 
beautiful specimens, was heard with much interest. 
The only geological paper was one by Mr. R, E. Leach on the 
Crag Formation at Yarn Hill, near Southwold, illustrated by about 
eighty-five species of shells. A collection of fossil seeds from 
Pakefield was also exhibited on the same occasion. 
Mr. Plowright read a paper on the Damage done by the Rime 
Frost in January, 1889, in the neighbourhood of King’s Lynn. 
Under the ponderous weight of innumerable little icicles, large 
branches of trees were broken off in every direction. A series of 
excellent photographs of trees thus mutilated, aptly illustrated the 
destructive influence of the rime. 
In the month of May some twenty or thirty members of the 
Society made an excursion to Ringland under tire most favourable 
auspices, as regards the weather, and that genial hospitality so 
often bestowed upon us by our country friends. What with the 
natural beauties of the scenery, the art treasures of Morton Hall, and 
