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REPORTS OF MEETINGS. 
BOTANICAL SECTION. 
T he members of the Section have continued the customary 
excursions on Saturdaj’’ afternoons during the summer, in 
accordance with a published programme. 
On Thursday evening, April 30th, 1885, the annual 
meeting of the Section was held in University College, and the 
president, Prof. Leipner, communicated some notes on fresh- 
water algae. 
Five new species of flowering plants have been added to the 
local Flora during the past year; and the Secretary has collected 
much information for the work now in course of publication. 
Part V. of the “ Flora of the Bristol Coal-field ” does not 
contain the whole of the Monocotyledones, the Glumiferae having 
been reserved for another year. 
J. W. WHITE, Hon. Sec. 
CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL SECTION. 
HE Section has met regularly during the winter months, 
X and papers have been read by Prof. Ramsay and Mr. 
Cundall, Prof. Thompson, Prof. Shaw, and by Messrs. Berry 
and Shenstone.. 
On May 9th, the London Physical Society visited Bristol, at 
the invitation of the Presidents of our Society and of the Section. 
The arrangements for this visit were carried out by a com- 
mittee appointed by the Section, in accordance with a resolution 
passed by the Society at one of their meetings in 1884. 
W. A. SHENSTONE, Hon. Sec. 
