of lllediogs 
For the year ending December 31, 1905. 
GENERAL. 
M r. C. K. RUDGE chose “ Some Animals from a Devon- 
tide Pool ” as the subject of his Presidential lecture on 
January 26. 
The subjects brought before the Society at the General Meetings 
were as follows : — 
Feb. 9. Professor S. H. Reynolds, M.A., F.G.S., on “ A 
Sketch of the Geological History of the Bristol District.” 
Mar. 2. Mr. F. B. Stead, M.A., on “ The Deep Sea and its 
Fauna.” 
Apr. 6. — Mr. R. C. Cann Lippincott on “ Goethe’s explana- 
tion of the production of Colour by Colourless Semi-transparent 
Media ” ; and Mr. J. H. Priestley, B.Sc., on “ Some Relations 
between Plants and Ants.” 
May 4. — Mr. G. Munro Smith, M.R.C.S., on “ The Domestic 
Cat.” 
Oct. 5. — Mr. J. H. Priestley, B.Sc., on “ Plants as Parasites.” 
Nov. 2.— Mr. J. W. White, F.L.S., on “ The Botany of the 
Balearics.” 
Dec. 7. — Mr. 0. C. M. Davis, B.Sc., on “Some Experiments 
with Gases.” 
Messrs. Davis’ and Lippincott’s papers were illustrated by 
experiments, the others by lantern slides. 
BOTANICAL SECTION. 
T he discovery of a new British grass in North Somerset was 
referred to in my last Report. The story of its identifica- 
tion savours of romance. In the year 1726 Dillenius, Sherardian 
