REPORTS OF MEETINGS 
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One of our rarest plants — the Vaccinium oxy coccus — 
hitherto found very sparingly in one bog on Blackdown, 
has been noticed by Miss Roper in a second locality near 
Priddy. The delicate prostrate stems, creeping among 
Sphagnum, are always difficult to find. 
Three new-comers, not before recorded in this neigh- 
bourhood, have appeared in some abundance on waste 
ground in St. Philip’s, viz. Galium Vaillantii, Centaur ea 
calcitrapa and Apera interrupta. From the nature of 
the ground, these cannot be expected to endure long at 
the same spot ; but the causes that introduced them will 
remain in operation, and therefore it is quite likely that 
they will reappear at intervals in the vicinity of our docks 
and railways. ^ 
JAMES W. WHITE, F.L.S., 
Hon. Sec, 
GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 
HE Section commenced the year with fifty members 
-L and ended with fifty-seven, six having resigned 
during the year. Professor S. H. Reynolds, M.A., F.G.S., 
was re-elected President, and Mr. B. A. Baker Hon. Sec. 
There have been nine Meetings of the Section, at which 
the following papers were read : — 
Feb. 4. — “ Notes on the Geology of the Volcanic Eifel,” 
by Miss F. Maciver. 
Feb. 18. — “ The Rhaetic Bone Beds,” by W. H. Wickes. 
Mar. 17. — “ The Mesozoic Rocks of Northern Ireland,” 
by Prof. Grenville A. J. Cole, of Dublin. 
' April 28. — “ Notes on the Carboniferous of the Avon 
Gorge,” by Dr. A. Vaughan, B.A., F.G.S. 
May 19. — “ Notes on the Geology of Shropshire, with 
special reference to the Church Stretton district,” by Prof. 
S. H. Reynolds, M.A., F.G.S. 
