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series of plants gathered by him this year in Switzerland and the 

 Tyrol. The most important among them were Rhododendron 

 chamcecistus, L., the prettiest, and also the rarest, of the family ; 

 R. ferrugineum, L. ; R. hdrsutum, L. ; Phyteuma comosum, L. ; 

 Tofieldia calyculata, var. capitata, Koch. 



Mr. Thos. H. Bryce, M.A., M.B., CM., F.R.S.E., showed his 

 fine set of lantern slides in illustration of the early development 

 of Echinus esculentus, L. The slides were prepared from micro- 

 photographs of actual specimens, and form an excellent series by 

 means of which the phenomena of cell-division and segmentation 

 can be demonstrated. 



30th January, 1900. 



Mr. Alex. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., in the chair. 



Mr. J. Leiper Gemmill, Parklea, Dunibreck, and Mr. John H. 

 Teacher, M.A., M.B., CM., Physiological Laboratory, Glasgow 

 University, were elected Ordinary Members. 



The following were elected Corresponding Members of the 

 Society, viz. : — Rev. Edward F. Linton, M.A., Crymlyn, Bourne- 

 mouth, who, by the request of the Kew authorities, has now 

 under preparation a new edition of The Student's Flora; Mr. 

 James Groves, F.L.S., 58 Jeffreys Road, Clapham Rise, London, 

 S.W., engaged in bringing out a new edition of Babington's 

 Manual of British Botany; Rev. Edward S. Marshall, M.A., 

 F.L.S., joint-author of the Flora of Kent; Mr. William P. Hiern, 

 M.A., F.L.S., Castle House, Barnstaple, Devonshire, who has 

 been engaged for several years, at the request of the British 

 Museum authorities, in preparing a catalogue of the Welwitsch 

 collection of West African plants ; Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger, B.E., 

 B.A., M.R.I. A., National Library of Ireland, Dublin, joint- 

 editor of the Irish Naturalist^ and now at work in the preparation 

 of a Topographical Botany of Ireland. 



On behalf of Professor G. F. Scott Elliot, M.A., B.Sc, F.L.S., 

 F.R.G.S., there was exhibited by Mr. J. Wylie, a collection of 

 sixty -four species of Mycetozoa — presented to Professor Elliot by 

 Mr. Arthur Lister, F.R.S. Mr. Wylie read a paper treating 

 fully of the group, and especially of those which had been 

 obtained from the Clyde district, which were as follows : — 

 Fhysarum nutans, Lister, on an old stump in Darnley Wood; 



