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the hardiest member of its genus, and it is much better adapted 

 for outdoor cultivation than the Blue Gum Tree {Eucalyj^tus 

 globulus, LabilL). 



29th December, 1896. 



Mr. Robert Kidston, F.R.S.E.. F.G.S., President, in the chair. 



A portrait of the late President, Professor Thomas King, to be 

 placed in the Council Room, was exhibited, and a letter was read 

 from Mrs. Ritchie, Professor King's sister, acknowledging receipt 

 of a duplicate copy of the portrait which the Society had pre- 

 sented to her. 



The following were elected as Ordinary Members of the 

 Society: — Messrs. John Alexander, 18 St. Enoch Square; George 

 Herriot, 29 Lacrosse Terrace, Hillhead ; James Horn, 591 Great 

 Eastern Road ; Miss Sophia B. Robbie, 9 Argyle Terrace, Kirn. 



Mr. James M'Andrew, Corresponding Member, sent for exhibi- 

 tion (Edijyodiuin Griffithii, Schwseg, from Bennan Hill, New 

 Galloway, and Hedwigia ciliata, Ehrh., var. striata, Wils., from 

 Greenan Holm, New Galloway. 



Mr. R. D. Wilkie exhibited A7)ihlystegiu'in S2:)rucei, B. & S., 

 from the Falls of Clyde. Mr. Wilkie also exhibited a handsome 

 species of Louse wort {Pedicularis Sceptruin-Carolinum, Linn.), 

 from Yadso, Lapland, and some Norwegian Mosses, all from Mr. 

 W. E. Nicholson, Lewes. Mr. Nicholson also sent for exhibition 

 Manomitrium tenerum, Lindb., a rare British moss from Ash- 

 down, Sussex. This minute moss was first recorded as a British 

 species from Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, in 1854, and has not since 

 been found in any other British locality until discovered by Mr. 

 Nicholson in the same county in September this year. Paludella 

 squao'rosa, Brid., another of the mosses exhibited by Mr. Wilkie, 

 is the only member of a distinct genus. Formerly found in 

 Britain in two localities, viz., at Terrington Carr, Yorkshire, and 

 Knutsford Moor, Cheshire, it has now disappeared from both, 

 owing to changes in the ground through drainage, and its claim 

 to rank as a British moss at the present day is very slender. It 

 is common in Scandinavia and in North America. 



Colonel J. S. Stirling and the Chairman exhibited a collection 

 of Stirlingshire Sphagnacese, as follows, viz. : — Sjyhagnum Austini, 



