Vi PEOCEEDINGS Of THE 



March 20tb, 1873. 

 Greorge Beutham, Esq., President, iu the Chair, 



Henry Sullivan Thomas, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



Dr. Hooker, Y.P.L.S., exhibited, from the Kew Museum, a 

 portion of the wood of the Coifee-tree perforated by the Coffee- 

 borer {Xylotrichus q^uadnipes) ; also specimens of the larvae and 

 perfect insects. 



Mr. J. G-. Baker, E.L.S., exhibited a triandrous form of Salix 

 fragilis, a typically diandrous species, sent by Mr. T. E. A. 

 Briggs from the neighbourhood of Plymouth ; also specimens of 

 new and rare British and Australian Algae, sent by Mrs. Merri- 

 field, of Brighton. 



Eead: extracts from a pamphlet (communicated by E. S. 

 Button, Esq., Agent- General S.A.) " On the 'Take-all' Corn- 

 disease of South Australia," by Dr. Carl Miicke ; also from a letter 

 " On the * Take-all ' and ' Eed Eust,' " addressed by the Eev. M. 

 J. Berkeley, in December 1868, to Dr. J. H. Grilbert, and from a 

 Eeport on the same subject to the Directors of the South- Austra- 

 lian Company, by Messrs. Lawes and Gilbert (both printed in 

 the Journal of the Eoyal Horticviltural Society, vol. ii. pt. 6). 



The Secretary then read a letter, dated the 10th instant, from 

 the Eev. JMr. Berkeley, to whom Dr. Miicke's pamphlet had been 

 forwarded by the President ; and a discussion afterwards followed, 

 in which Mr. Bentham, Mr. Currey, Mr. M'Lachlan, Mr. A. 

 Miiller, and Mr. Dutton took part. 



April 3rd, 1873. 



George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



William Clarson, Esq., and Arthur Lister, Esq., were elected 

 Eellows. 



The President announced that vol. xxviii. pt. 3 of the Transac- 

 tions was ready for distribution to the Fellows. 



