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The article discusses the highlights of the autumn meeting of the British Ecological Society held in the Department of Botany at Bedford College in London, England on September 19 and 20, 1955. Several papers dealing with various aspects of the ecology of Calluna vulgaris were presented on the 19th, including a paper on experimental work to determine the effect of grazing wether sheep on enclosed areas of Calluneta. A discussion of the effects of burning heather is provided.

The article reports on the highlights of the annual general meeting of the British Ecological Society that was held at the Department of Zoology of the Imperial College of Science and Technology in South Kensington, England on January 7-8, 1955. Exhibits have been featured during the event, including two actinometers for solar radiation, illustrations of the ecology of a rock pool and the breeding of Atlantic seals.

The article focuses on a study that examined the vegetation of peat lands in New Zealand. The two classifications of flat fens are described. The first group are fens with a vegetation dominated by trees and shrubs like Podocarpus dacrydioides, Cordyline australis, Coprosma tenuifolia and Hebe salicifolia, while the second group are fens with a vegetation dominated by herbs, sedges, rushes, and grasses. In New Zealand, it has been observed that deciding whether a mire should be classified as a fen or as a bog is considered difficult.