134 The Scottish Naturalist. 



The address of the Chairman (Mr. Boyd of Faldonside) is entitled, Some 



Remarks on the Study of Mosses. Then follow Obituary 

 Notices of Professor John Hutton Balfour, M.D., Messrs. 

 Isaao Anderson-Henry, Rev. George Macfarlane, and T. 



C. Archer, Director of the Museum of Science and Art in Edinburgh. 

 The other papers may be grouped as follows : Report on Australian 

 and New Zealand Plants grown on the East Coast of 

 Arran, by Rev. D. Landsborough ; Report on Temperatures and 

 Open- Air Vegetation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edin- 

 burgh, from July, 1884, to June, 1885, by Robert Lindsay, 

 Curator ; Report on Temperature and Vegetation in the 

 Garden of the Royal Institution of Glasgow during 1884- 



1885, by R. Bullen, Curator. 



Note on Asplenium Germanicum, by John Lowe, M.D. ; (ex- 

 , peritnental cultivation of plants from the Maloja Pass produced every inter- 

 mediate form between A. germanicum and A. septentrionale). 



On Some New Cases of Epiphytism among Algse, and 

 Preliminary Note on the Evolution of Oxygen by Sea- 

 weeds, both by John Rattray, A.M., &c. 



On the Occurrence of Carex salina Wahlnb., b. Katte- 

 gatensis, Fries, in Scotland, by A. W. Bennett, F.L.S. 



The following should also be mentioned, though not relating to Scotch 

 Botauy specially : Notes on some of the Larger Palms in the 

 Palm-stove of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, 

 by Robert Lindsay, Curator. 



On the Development of Bifoliar Spurs into Ordinary 

 Buds in Pinus Sylvestris, by Prof. Dickson, M.D. 



Hib Brian! b's Views on the Physiological Functions of 

 Plant Tissues, by G. F. Scott Elliott, B.A. 



Report of Excursion of Scottish Alpine Botanical Club 

 to Teesdale and Kirkby Lonsdale, in 1884, by William 

 Craig. M.D. 



