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there are 559 species represented, including a few additions I 
have made during the year. 
"Nothing therefore practically remains to be done but field- 
work to supply vacancies. 
"On the afternoon of August 14th a botanical excursion was 
made to Cornwood. By the kind offers of Mr. J. Duke Pode, j. p., 
Admiral Parker, j.p., and Lord Blachford, the fine old entrance 
hall and grounds at Slade, the grounds at Delamore, and the 
woods and waterfalls at Awns and Dendles, were respectively 
visited, Mr. and Miss Maxwell very kindly guiding the party. 
The following were the more noteworthy plants observed : Epip- 
actis latifolia (Broad -leaved Hellebore) ; Veronica scutellata 
(Marsh Speedwell); Scutellaria minor (Lesser Skull-cap); Tamus 
communis (Black Bryony) ; Pinguecula lusitanica (Pale Butter- 
wort) ; Radiola millegrana (Flax Seed) ; Hymenophyllum tun- 
bridgense (Tunbridge Filmy Fern); Myrica gale (Bog Myrtle)." 
The Curator of Geology reports : 
" During the past year, through the influence of Mr. J. 
Brooking Kowe, the private collection of the late Mr. James 
Davidson, of Axminster, has been added to the Museum. This 
constitutes an important and valuable contribution, illustrative 
of the geology of East Devon and the western part of Dorset. 
The collection consists of upwards of 900 specimens, and contains 
examples of the Blackdown series of the Lower Cretaceous, also 
the Jurassic — Oolite and Lias — of Dorset, together with some from 
the upper Eocene beds of the Isle of Wight. Included in the 
collection are some mineralogical specimens. For the present, 
however, they have been placed together in a table case on 
the ground floor. 
"During the past winter an important osseous deposit has 
been opened at Cattedown, in the course of excavations in the 
limestone, by Messrs. Burnard, Lack, and Alger. As the excavations 
are still in progress, no detailed account can yet be furnished. 
The whole of the deposit, however, has been generously placed 
at the disposal of the Institution by the proprietors, and the finds 
are being periodically forwarded to Mr. Worth for examination, 
who will report upon the whole on some subsequent occasion. 
A portion of the collection has been temporarily placed in one 
of the new cases. Included in the collection up to the present 
