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ANNUAL REPORT. 
Of the 27 plants in the above list, 13 are new records. 
Two of them, viz., Alchemilla vulgaris and Rosa villosa, 
take precedence of the records in Mr. Edwin Lees’s list of 
Malvern plants in “Loudon’s Magazine;” and three of them, 
viz., Linum catharticum, Plantago media, and Avena elatior 
take precedence of the same plants in Scott. 
(To be continued.) 
TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE 
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL 
SOCIETY, 
Presented by the Council to the Annual Meeting, 
February 1st, 1888. 
The Society has worked during the past year, 1887, under 
the new arrangement of sections, the four sections—Micros¬ 
copical, Biological, Geological, and Sociological—meeting on 
the four successive Tuesdays in each month, and this arrange¬ 
ment has been found satisfactory and successful. The 
particulars of the papers read at the meetings are given under 
the heads of the different sections, and several of these papers 
have been of much interest and value, and have well sustained 
the character of the Society. 
A conversazione was held on October 4th, at the opening 
of the session, and proved very successful. It was held in the 
Examination Hall. Mason College, and a fine collection of 
zoological, botanical, and geological specimens was contributed 
from the College Museums. An interesting collection of birds 
and their nests was exhibited by Mr. Chase ; a large collection 
of fungi by Mr. Grove ; and an extensive series of glass photo¬ 
graphs by Mr. Pumphrey and Mr. Watson ; also a number of 
objects under microscopes. The conversazione gave great 
satisfaction, and from the liberality of friends the cost to the 
Society was very small. 
An excursion to Oxford was carried out on Whit Monday, 
when the members were very kindly received by Mr. Druce 
and Mr. Simms and the several College authorities, and had 
a very interesting and agreeable review of the college buildings 
and gardens, and of the Botanic Gardens, over which the 
members were conducted by Professor Balfour. 
The annual meeting of the Midland Union of Natural 
History Societies was held at Malvern, on July 6th and 7th, 
where excursions were made to the Syenitic Quarries of the 
North Hill, the Upper Llandovery Sandstone at the Wyclie, 
the British Camp, and Ledbury Church; and the fine Silurian 
and Old Red collection of Mr. G. H. Piper was seen. 
