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Information about the annual general meeting of the British Ecological Society held at the University College in London on January 6-7, 1949 and its thirty-fourth annual meeting held at Bristol University in London on January 9, 1948 are presented. Various woods and rare plants in Great Britain were discussed in the 1949 event accompanied by exhibits of various photographs of species while the 1948 meeting was about hydrography and ecology.

Information about the annual meeting of the British Ecological Society at the Departments of Botany and Zoology in Bristol University in Bristol, England on January 8-9, 1948 is presented. It featured exhibitions of ecological works including the work on the hydrography and ecology of the Lough Ine Rapids, Co. Cork and the botanical exhibits of a transect of dunes at Brauton Burrows. The report of the Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the Society in January 1947 is also featured.

The article looks at the form of the accounts of the City of Bristol, England, from 1532 until the reform of the Corporation in 1835. The author focuses on the form and content of the account books and indications of the uses to which they were put. An examination of the Audits reveals that they were written up after the accounting period had ended. The author assumes that there must have been books of original entry and a record of the funds not contained in the Mayor's Audits, as none prior to 1615 remain. Reports found dated past 1615 have made it possible to trace the efforts of the mayor and commonalty in obtaining effective financial control.

The article discusses the studies made on the biology of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England. It presents a description of an inquiry made on the physical features and the fauna of the estuary starting above Gloucester to Ilfracombe. It is noted that mud of Severn water is high, which increases in winter, while the mud zone remains constant. The highest turbidity takes place more on saline water during summer than in winter but there is more silt in winter than in summer. Moreover, the floods from fresh-water in winter push the salt water to the sea. The animals from Ilfracombe to Gloucester has also been studied and it dies out rapidly above Avonmouth.

This article examines the hypothesis on management of real estate in Whitchurch in Bristol, England, proposed by economist M.M. Postan. Whitchurch's suitability as a case study is fourfold. First, it provided revenues from all the principal sources of landed and seigneurial income in the fifteenth century. Five-sixths of the lands were in the hand of copyholders paying fixed rents, which in 1400 provided approximately one-third of the income. Secondly, there were no special advantages such as offered by the cloth industry on the Castle Coombe estate of John Fastolf. Whitchurch was not geared to a special sector of the economy. Thirdly, the estate was administered at different times both personally by its lord and on his behalf by a well-established bureaucracy. One factor that cannot be ignored in the study of the fifteenth-century economy is the difficulty of making generally applicable conclusions for a kingdom with very marked regional differences, which tended to make economic movements and the responses to them less than uniform. There would seem, for instance, to have been significant differences between the counties feeling the pull of the London market, the midland plain, and the lands of the Welsh and Scottish marches.

The article focuses on humanist research at the University of Bristol Institute of Education. Research in education has, in fact, been unduly influenced by the success which has attended research in the pure sciences to use narrowly scientific methods. But the methods that are suitable to the investigation of material things are not necessarily suitable to investigate the world of thought, purpose and value. At Bristol researchers have broken boldly away from contemporary style of research and embarked on five projects which are frankly humanist in character. They have undertaken one that is consciously and narrowly scientific in type, and rightly so, because it is a research on a material aid to education. This is a technical research on the use of television in the classroom. The British Broadcasting Corp. has carried out its own research in Middlesex, but this has a limited validity because it occupied only a few hours and invoked little help from teachers. The Bristol experiment, carried out in Gloucestereshire rural schools, lasted many months and depended on the collaboration of many teachers as well as the British Broadcasting Corp.

The article highlights the summer meeting of the British Ecological Society held at Bristol, England in July 1963. The meeting started in the afternoon of July 18 when two separate excursions were arranged. Those primarily botanically minded explored the flora of the Avon Gorge. The following day was mostly spent on the peat of the Somerset Levels. Third day was spent on a tour of the southern Cotswolds and woodlands near Berkeley. The last day of the meeting was spent on the Mendip Hills, mostly around the area of Charter-house-on-Mendip.