126 Botahical Society of Edinburgh, 



anf/u/us'!. and many other Bpecies peculiar to those rarely visited 



in >untains. 



;;. Mr. Brand exhibited a specimen of Carex leporina, found by 

 him in 1^."!(>. (hiring an excursion to Bracmar and the mountains of 

 Aberdeenshire. 



4. Mr. Thomas W. Morrison exhibited specimens of the following 

 plants from Cumberland and Westmoreland : — Epimedium alpinum, 

 Wastwater, Cumberland; Impaticns noli-me-tangere, Barron Wood, 

 Westmoreland ; Rosa gracilis, Whinlater, near Keswick ; Rosa cin- 

 namomcu, Portinscale, near Keswick. 



The Society then proceeded to the election of Office-Bearers for 

 1839, when the following gentlemen were elected : — 



President. 



Robert Graham, M.D., F.R.S.E., F.L.S., Hon. M.R.I. A,, Regius Professor 

 of Botany in the University of Edinburgh. 



Vice-Pres iden ts . 



David Falconak, Esq. of Carlowrie. Robt. Kaye Greville, Esq.,L.L.D., 

 Robert Christison,M.D.,F.R.S.E., F.R.S.E., F.L.S. 

 Pres. R.C.P.E. David Steuart, Esq. 



Councillors. 



William M'Nab, Esq., A.L.S. Edward R. Roberts, Esq. 



W. F. Lindsay Carnegie, Esq. of R. Wilbraham Falconer, Esq., 



Boysack. Pres. Roy. Med. Soc. 



PATRicKNEiLL,Esq.,LL.D.,F.R.S.E., Thomas Blizard Bell, Esq. 



F.L.S. 



Treasurer : William Brand, Esq., W.S. — Secretary : William Hunter 

 Campbell, Esq. — Foreign Secretaries : Edward Forbes, Esq., Pres. Roy. 

 Phys. Society ; John Hutton Balfour, M.D., F.R.S.E., F.R.C.S.E. — 

 Curator: John IIutton Pollexfen, M.D. — A s sis I ant Curator : August 

 Aemil Kellerman. — Artist: James M'Nab, Esq. 



January 10th, 1839. — Professor Graham, President, in the Chair. 



A letter to the President was read, from His Excellency the Mi- 

 nister Resident and Plenipotentiary of the King of Saxony, inti- 

 mating that His Majesty had been graciously pleased to acquiesce in 

 the proposal of the Society to elect His Majesty a Foreign Honorary 

 Member. 



It was resolved that on the occasion of so exalted a personage 

 joining the Society, that the usual mode of election by ballot should 

 be dispensed with ; HisMajesty Frederick Augustus, King of Saxony, 

 was accordingly elected a Foreign Honorary Member by unanimous 

 acclamation. 



1. Mr. Forbes read some observations on certain Continental 

 Plants allied to British species. He exhibited to the Society speci- 



