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Report on the Wells Wild Birds Protection Society was read, 
and Mr. Patterson’s “ Spring Notes.” 
On 2 1st June an excursion of the Society was made to 
Sutton Laboratory. The party drove to Stalham, lunched 
there, and proceeded in boats to the Laboratory, from 
Stalham Staithe. The director of ^the Laboratory, Mr. 
F. Balfour Browne, had prepared an interesting exhibition 
of objects and specimens illustrating the biology, etc., of 
fresh waters. Some botanising was done on the marshes, 
great interest being displayed in a dyke which contained 
a quantity of Straliotes aloides, L., in flower. 
26th September, Mr. T. Southwell read and made remarks 
upon some letters of Robert Marsham, in 1 777, and Hamon 
le Strange, in 1625. He also exhibited a photograph of 
a Crested Grebe on her nest. The Report of the Wolferton 
Wild Birds Protection Society was read. Mr. F. Long 
showed a specimen of Matricaria discoidea, D.C., from Surrey, 
and Mr. Patterson read some Notes. 
31st October, the Rev. A. Miles Moss read a paper 
on “ The Butterflies of Switzerland,” and exhibited several 
cases of specimens. Air. A. Patterson contributed “ Notes 
on Natural History of Breydon,” and exhibited a series of 
water-colour drawings of bird-life by Mr. F. Southgate, R.B.A. 
Your President, who had just returned from attending 
a meeting in London of the delegates of the Corresponding 
Societies of the British Association, gave an account of the 
subjects which had been discussed. These were : — The 
Preservation of our Native Plants, The Law of Treasure 
Trove, and the Question of Copyright as affecting Scientific 
Societies. With regard to the first of these, the opinion of 
the B.A. Committee seemed to be in favour of introducing 
an Act for the preservation of plants very much on the lines 
of the Wild Birds Protection Act now in force. The 
introduction of nature study into schools had, in some places, 
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