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don,” and Report on Two Skulls found at great depth at 
Bristol Dockgate and at Avonmouth Dock. 
Dec. 1. Mr. C. A. Wood, on “ Beside a Gloucester- 
shire Stream.” 
The following specimens were exhibited on January 28 : 
A flowering branch of Eucalyptus globulus, by Dr. A. B. 
Browse ; Feb. 11, a parlour palm (Aspidistra lurida) 
in flower, by Dr. A. B. Browse, and a tail of the Lyre 
Bird, by Dr. A. C. Fryer; May 5, a nest of the trap- 
door spider, by Dr. A. B. Browse ; Oct. 6, a sage whose 
bracts during flowering showed a crimson colour, and a 
white-flowered Herb Robert, whose colour had remained 
constant for fifteen generations, by Dr. A. B. Browse ; also 
specimens of Helianthemum polifolium, Scilla autumnalis 
and Primula scotica, by Mr. C. A. Wood. 
BOTANICAL SECTION. 
HE year 1904 is memorable in the annals of Bristol 
X Botany for the discovery, within a few miles of 
the city, of a new British grass — a species well known in 
France and Central Europe, but which has remained 
unidentified in this country until a few months ago. Bar- 
tic ulars must be reserved for the present, as the discoverer 
has not yet published the details of this remarkable find. 
Almost as surprising to west-country botanists was the 
news that Aster linosyris is not yet extinct with us, as 
had been feared. No living specimen had been seen in 
Somersetshire for close on half a century, so that the 
report of about 100 good plants still existing in the Bristol 
district is most cheering. 
Barharea intermedia has been added to the local flora 
from both West Gloucester and North Somerset. The 
writer has examples gathered near Fishponds, Nailsea 
