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April 25 . — u On the repens group of the genus Trifolium” — Mr. 
H. A. Hurst. 
Notwithstanding the hope expressed by your Council in 
their last report, that purely microscopical subjects would 
receive greater attention, it will be seen from the list of 
papers that but few can be thus classed ; this your Council 
regrets, as it believes that greater interest would attach to 
the meetings, if members engaged in microscopical research 
would bring the result of their investigations before the 
notice of the Section. 
The Section has to lament the death of one of its mem- 
bers, the late Lord Bishop of Manchester, to whom it is 
indebted for several contributions to the microscopical 
cabinet, and who showed an invariable wish to promote its 
best interests. 
The Section is now composed of 37 ordinary and one 
corresponding members, and nine associates. 
During the Session several valuable additions have been 
made to the cabinet and library ; amongst others, the thanks 
of the Section are more especially due to Mr. W. J. Rideout, 
who has presented one of J. D. Moller’s Diatomaceen Typen 
Platte, and to Mr. EL A. Hurst, for his gift of a rare botanical 
work, by Rev. J. Barrelier. 
Acting on the arrangement entered into with the Parent 
Society, to which reference was made in last year’s report, 
your Council have purchased several desirable works, the 
most noticeable of these being 58 vols. of Annales des Sciences 
Botaniques, and the following Colonial and Tropical Floras : 
Bentham’s Flora Hongkongensis ; Giesbach’s Flora of West 
India Islands; Hooker’s New Zealand Flora; Bentham’s 
Flora Australiensis ; Oliver’s Flora of Tropical Africa. 
As will be seen from the accompanying statement the 
Treasurer’s report is satisfactory, there being a balance in 
hand of £20 4s. 9d. 
