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Discussion. Special Discussion Meetings, under the auspices 
of the Section and in connection with Mr. G. P. 
Bailey’s Oxford University Extension Lectures, were held on 
February ioth and 24th, Mr. C. J. Parmiter presiding. 
Spas of the On April ioth the Section met at the Municipal 
Bournemouth College to hear a lecture from Mr. Geo. 
Cliffs. Brownen, F.C.S., on the “ Chalybeate Spas of 
the Bournemouth Cliffs.” A report of this lec¬ 
ture appears on a later page. 
Excursion to The one sectional excursion of the season oc- 
Poole. curred on July 9th, when about 35 of the mem¬ 
bers spent a very interesting afternoon at the 
Pottery Works of Messrs. Carter and Co., Ltd., Poole. 
A. Selection from tlje yapero 
reab before ilfe Society. 
A Comparison of some of the Diseases occurring in 
Animals with those which affect Plants, 
By Geo. G. Hamilton, M.B., F.R.C.S., F.B.H.S. 
Deputy Chairman of Council. 
(Delivered as a General Lecture in Trinity Hall, on November 30th, 1012). 
TAR. ROBERTS THOMSON, ladies and gentlemen, as a 
Surgeon it was necessary for me to have an intimate know¬ 
ledge of those diseases of man and the lower animals, which are 
caused by minute fungi or bacteria, and I had the very great 
advantage of spending two vears in my brother Professor 
H amilton’s pathological laboratory, and afterwards of studying 
for four years under that great bacteriological surgeon, Lord 
Lister. 
I am speaking now of 35 years ago, and at that time plants 
were not thought to be at all susceptible to the ravages of these 
minute fungi, and, in fact, about plant pathology there was very 
little known. 
Four years ago, when I came to Boscombe Place, my study 
of patients gave way to the study of plants, and it is a kind of 
