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separation, and to the preference of certain plants for the one class of these 

 localities rather than for some other. The whole address is filled with the 

 spirit of two of its sentences, "We must not be content to- accept without 

 question the fact of an animal or plant occurring in our district. We must 

 endeavour to ascertain whence it came, and how it happens to be where it is." 



We may with confidence predict for the Union a useful and prosperous 

 existence while it adheres to the lines on which it was originated, and on 

 which the reports of the first meeting show it to be conducted. 



It has been determined to accept the invitation of the Kirkcaldy Naturalists' 

 Society, to hold the next meeting in Kirkcaldy on 4th and 5th September, 

 1885 ; and Dr. James Geikie has intimated his acceptance of the President- 

 ship. Mr. William D. Sang, Kirkcaldy has accepted the offices of Secretary 

 and Treasurer for the ensuing year. 



It is requested that members willing to read papers at the meeting in 

 September will communicate their intention as early as possible to Mr. Sang. 



TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OP THE 

 EDINBURGH BOTANICAL SOCIETY. Vol XVI. part 1, 

 (Sessions xlvii.-xlviii.), though published this year, contains papers read from 

 9th Nov., 1882, till July 1884. They are as follows, being grouped into sub- 

 jects for convenience : — Obituary Notices of Thomas H. Corry (Cam- 

 bridge) ; Prof. George Dickie (Aberdeen) ; Prof. Oswald Heer 

 (Zurich) : Rev. John G. MacvicarD.D. ; Dr. Richard Parnell; 

 Dr. John L. Paterson (Bahia, Brazil); John Sadler; Dr. James 

 R. Scott (Kelso) ; Prof. Allen Thomson (Glasgow) ; and Mr. 

 George H. K. Thwaites (Ceylon). 



Records of Localities : — Note on Rubus Idaeus, var Leesii (near St. 

 Andrews), and notice of some plants from Invernessshire, by Dr. Mactier ; 

 sketch notes of the Flora of Berwickshire, by Charles Stuart M.D. ; notes on 

 plant localities in the seaward district of Berwickshire, Rev. George Mac- 

 farlane ; on certain additional localities for Cornish plants, by Thomas H. 

 Corry ; notes of meetings of the Scottish Alpine Club, at Loch Awe in July, 

 1882, by W. B. Boyd, in the Braemar Highlands in August, 1883, by Dr. 

 Stuart ; the May Island, its Archaeology, its Algoid Flora, its Phanerogams 

 and Higher Cryptogams, by John Rattray A.M., B. Sc. On the Algre of 

 Gran ton Quarry, by J. R. ; Statistics of the Topographical Botany of Scotland, 

 with suggestions as to further work, by Symington Grieve (summary of numeri- 

 cal results from Watson's "Topographical Botany," ed. 2). 



Phenological Observations and Cultivation :— Experiences 



in the cultivation of Alpine and other plants suited for the Rockery, and Her- 

 baceous plants in the mixed border, by W. B. Boyd ; Growth of half-hardy 

 plants on the east coast of Arran, by Rev. Dr. Landsbofough \ Phytopheno- 

 logical observations, by W. C. Crawford ) Report on temperatures and open- 

 air vegetation at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from October 1882 to 

 June 1884* with Register of Flowering of certain selected plants, by John 

 Sadler and Robert Lindsay. 

 Morphology and Physiology : — The multi-nucleated condition of 



