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acutiusculd ; anfractibus 6 convexiusculis, ultimo spiram tequante ; 



columelld recedente, subarcuatd ; aperturd ovali, intus nitide albd ; 



peristomate simplice, recto, margine columellari albido, dilatato, 



subfornicatim reflexo. 

 Long. 32, diam. 15 mill. 

 From Cusoo. 



29. Bulimus bolivianus, Pfr. Bui. tcstd perforatd, oblongo- 

 turritd, lineis impressis sub lente minutissime decussatd, nitidd, 

 albido -rubelld, fasciis latis, badiis, subinterruptis ornatd; spird 

 turritd, apice acuto, rubro ; anfractibus 7 planis, ultimo convex- 

 iusculo, 4 longitudinis sub&quanie ; columelld torto-plicatd, rosed ; 

 aperturd ovali-oblongd, intus concolore ; peristomate simplice, 

 margine dextro breviter expanso, columellari perdilatato, reflexo, 

 excavato, perforationem rimieformem fere tegente. 



Long. 33, diam. 13 mill. 

 From Merida, Andes of Bolivia. 



30. Bulimus oparanus, Pfr. Bui. testa subimperforatd, subulatd, 

 longitudinaliter distincte striata, tenui, hyalino-cered ; spird subu- 

 latd, acutiusculd ; anfractibus 9 vix convexiusculis, ultimo \ longi- 

 tudinis subcequante ; columelld vix arcuatd ; aperturd oblongo-ovali ; 

 peristomate simplice, recto, margine columellari fornicatim brevis- 

 sime reflexo, adnato. 



Long. 11, diam. 3 mill. (Spec, max.) 



From the island of Opara ; found in earth at the roots of plants 

 (H. Cuming, Esq.). 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



May 14, 1846. — Professor Balfour, President, in the Chair. 



Donations to the library and museum were announced, and several 

 Fellows were elected. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " Biographical Sketch of the late Professor Graham," by Dr. 

 Ransford. 



" Robert Graham was the third son of the late Dr. Graham of 

 Stirling (afterwards Moir of Leckie), and of Mrs. Anne Stewart, 

 daughter of the late Charles Stewart, Esq., of Appin. His early edu- 

 cation was obtained at Stirling. He was apprenticed in 1 804 to the 

 late Mr. Andrew Wood, F.R.C.S. Edinburgh, and became a licen- 

 tiate of the College of Surgeons in 1 808, and graduated at the Uni- 

 versity during the same year. He then studied for twelve months 

 in London at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and afterwards commenced 

 practice in Glasgow. In 1812 he was appointed Physician to the 

 Infirmary of the latter city and Lecturer on Clinical Medicine, and 

 published an essay on the continued fever, which at the time was 

 epidemic in Glasgow. Dr. Graham succeeded Dr. Brown as Lec- 

 turer on Botany ; and in the following year, having been appointed 

 by the Government Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow, 

 he succeeded, in conjunction with some other gentlemen, in esta- 

 blishing a Botanical Garden, and took the principal share in its for- 



