Study and Survey of British Vegetation. 103 
THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY AND 
SURVEY OF BRITISH VEGETATION. 
HE progress of the work of this Committee may be summarised, 
as in previous years, (see Nfav Phytologist, January, 1905 
and December, 1905), by giving some abstracts from the Minutes 
for 1906. The principal meetings, held in London on March 24th, and 
in the Botanical Laboratories of the University of Manchester on 
November 24th and 25th, were well attended A special meeting was 
called at York during British Association week to deal with some 
urgent business. Outdoor excursions, conducted by members familiar 
with the respective districts, took place into Surrey in March, and 
into Derbyshire in August. The membership has been increased by 
two, but it has suffered the loss of Dr. Marcel Hardy, who, after 
completing an important primary survey of the greater part of 
the North of Scotland, has sought in Mexico a wider sphere for 
studies in vegetation. 
Whether one considers the organisation as a whole or the 
work of individual members, the past year has been one of distinct 
progress. The numerous communications, especially at the autumn 
meetings, indicate that members are all engaged on original 
research on vegetation, and that each one has problems more 
particularly his own. The Committee as a whole has considered 
several important questions of a technical character, but on which 
it is as yet too early to arrive at final conclusions. The chief items 
of interest may be summarised in groups. 
Publications. Three Papers have been published by members 
during the year, and each one deals with a different aspect of 
Ecological Botany. “The Ecology of Woodland Plants in the 
Neighbourhood of Huddersfield” by Dr. T. W. Woodhead (Linnean 
Soc. Jour.—Botany, Vol. 37, October, 1906) is a detailed study of 
the vegetation of an area which has previously been treated in a 
“primary survey”; a review of the work has already appeared in 
these pages (Vol. V., November, 1906). “ The Geographical Distri¬ 
bution of Vegetation in Somerset,” by Mr. C. E. Moss, is an addition 
to the series of primary surveys of British vegetation, especially 
interesting because it is the first which deals with the vegetation of 
the South of England ; a review will be found in a recent number 
(New Phytologist, February, 1907). The systematic investigation 
of peat deposits has been advanced a stage further into the Scottish 
