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which it will be seen that the severe weather from which we have suffered during the past month is not altogether unprecedented:

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ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF NORFOLK. During the past year (1882) I have received from Mr. F. Norgate and the Rev. H. Williams specimens of Linaria purpurea, Lin., and Erigeron canadense, Lin., from Thetford and Croxton; and Mr. Williams informs me that the latter has been established there for several years. Mr. Williams also finds Equisetum variegatum, Schleich., in the same neighbourhood. None of these species have been previously recorded for the county so far as I know.-H. D. GELDART.

POTENTILLA NORVEGICA. Last August I had the pleasure of finding Potentilla norvegica, Lin., growing on the river-bank at Thorpe. I am informed by Professor Babington that it has been found in Cambridgeshire, but this is the first time it has been recorded as an accidental immigrant in Norfolk.-A. M. BARNARD.

CHARA TOMENTOSA, LIN., IN NORFOLK. In August, 1881, while 'dragging' for Potamogetons in the Hundred Stream and Heigham Sounds, the drag brought up large numbers of specimens of various Characea. Among them two specimens, in bad condition, of Chara tomentosa, Lin., which was not only an addition to the Flora of the county, but also to England. With it were growing Chara contraria, Kütz., C. stelligera, Bauer (in good fruit, in which state it is very rare on the Continent), C. fragilis, &c. It has long been known from Ireland, having been found in 1841 in Belvidere Lake, in Westmeath, by the late Dr. Moore; and subsequently in the River Shannon, below Portumna. In Europe it occurs from Sweden! southwards to France! It may be known from all our other species by its large bract cells and stipulodes.-ARTHUR BENNETT, F.L.S.

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ADDRESS.

Read by the President, MR. H. M. UPCHER, F.Z.S., to the Members of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, at their Fifteenth Annual Meeting, held at the Norfolk and Norwich Museum, March 27th, 1884.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-When you did me the honour to elect me as your President, you also assured me that you would deal leniently with me in case of any shortcomings. I feel that I have trespassed to the utmost on your leniency; and am fully aware of my shortcomings, in not attending more regularly the pleasant and instructive meetings held in this room. But I was unable in the winter to undertake the night journeys which would have enabled me to do so. In return for your generous kindness, I have now to inflict upon you a paper of unlimited length and unparalleled dulness.

During the past year fourteen new members have been elected; whereas we have been fortunate enough only to lose five; of these, two were by death, viz., Rev. John Bailey and Mr. Alfred Master. Three have discontinued. So we now number two hundred and forty-six members, an increase of nine this year.

The financial state of the Society is in a flourishing condition. I will now, with your permission, briefly allude to some of the papers which have been read during the past year.

At the first meeting, in April, the Secretary read some interesting extracts from General Norgate's diary, on Natural History in India, giving a curious account of the habits of several species of Ants. The ways and customs of these busy little folk have been much inquired into in England of late, and it is interesting to know that there are as many as thirty-four or thirty-five British species.

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