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NEWS FROM THE BRANCHES. 
Bath. — The Report of this Branch for the year ending May, 1898, shows a 
membership of 347, an increase of 28 in the year ; seven excursions held, six 
lectures given, besides the annual Conversazione, and a balance of over £40. 
Mr. M. H. Scott, of 5, Lansdown Place West, has become secretary ; Mrs. 
Wheatcroft retaining only the management of the excursions. 
New Forest.— Miss C. Agnes Rooper, of Pen Selwood, Gervis Road, 
Bournemouth, has accepted the Hon. Secretaryship of the New Forest Branch, 
and all communications relating thereto may now be addressed to her at her 
address. 
Northern Heights. — The Council has pleasure in welcoming H. B. 
Wills, Esq., as the new representative of this Branch. 
Richard Jefferies (Worthing). — Mrs. George Butt, of Wilbury, Littlehamp- 
ton, has accepted the Hon. Secretaryship of this Branch, and communications 
may now be addressed to her at that address. 
Croydon and Norwood. — On September 20 an address was given by Mr. 
E. A. Martin to the Sunbeam Band of Mercy, Thornton Heath, on “ Ants and 
Spiders,” lantern slides being kindly lent by the Humanitarian League. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Mrs. Randlos. — Full Revelations of a Professsonal Ratcatcher, published 
by the Author, Ike Mathews, Ratcatcher, Pendleton, Manchester, post free, 
is. id. 
Mrs. Turle. — Cornus sanguinea. 
Chilworth. — Polygonum cuspidatum. 
F.C.M. — The conifer is Cupressus Lawsoniana ; the material in the other 
cases was insufficient. 
Mrs. Meade Waldo. — A person ignorant of botany would certainly find it 
very difficult to arrange the flora of Santa Fe. Outlines of Botany , by George 
Bentham (Lovell Reeve, 2s. 6d.), would be perhaps the most useful introductory 
book. There is no handbook or complete flora of the district ; but the following 
afford material for one : — P. G. Lorentz, Vegetations- Verhdllniss der Argen- 
tinischen Republik, Buenos Aires, 1876, 8vo., and La Vegetation del Nordeste de la 
prov. de Entre Rios, Buenos Aires, 1878, 8vo. ; O. Schnydner, Contributions h 
la Jlore argentine, Geneve, 1877, 8vo. ; A. Grisebach, Plantes Lorentzianic, 
Gottingen, 1874, 4to., and Symbolic ad Floram Argentinam, Gottingen, 1879, 
4to., which are in German and Latin and only partly descriptive ; and J. 
Hieronymus, Plan tie Diaphoricce Flora Argentina, Buenos Ayres, 1882, 8vo., in 
Spanish, dealing mainly with medicinal plants. 
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