PROCEEDINGS. 



Mr. Francis furnished cut flowers of the following Roses from 

 his nursery in Hertford, viz., Boui'bon Queen, Jacques Lafitte, 

 Mrs. Bosanquet, La Reine, Devoniensis, Geant des Batailles, 

 Bougere, Belle Alleraande, Rambuteau, Elise Sauvage, Dr. Marx, 

 Marquis of Ailsa, Saffranot, Comte de Paris, Souvenir de la 

 Malmaison, Baronne Prevost, Standard of Marengo, Marquis 

 Boccella, Cloth of Gold, and Dupetit Thouars. 



A bouquet of Hardy Annuals was contributed by Mr. Wrench, 

 of London Bridge. 



Mr. Mills sent a half-ripened Cucumber, about a yard in length, 

 and three inches in diameter. 



IV.— NOVELTIES FROM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 



The Golden Lachenalia (L. aurea), a very handsome species, 

 producing spikes of long bright yellow tubular flowers ; two 

 Billbergia bifrons, a red and a white variety, from M. de Jonghe, 

 of Brussels ; and a cut flower-spike of the Peruvian-bark plant 

 (Cinchona Calisaya), whose blossoming in the garden, for the first 

 time in Europe, has excited so much interest. 



The following proposed alteration in the bye-laws, which had 

 been read at two previous meetings, was on this occasion read a 

 third time, viz. : " The Council hereby give notice that they 

 propose to substitute for chap, viii., article 1, of the present bye- 

 laws, namely : the number of honorary members shall not at any 

 time exceed five ; the following words — the number of honorary 

 members shall not at any time exceed ten." This alteration was 

 then balloted for, carried unanimously, and became a law of the 

 Society. 



V.— BOOKS PRESENTED. 



Transactions of the Linnean Society, Volume XXI. Part 1, and Proceedings of the 



Linnean Society, No. 45, 46, and 47, from the Society. 

 Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, Vol. XIII., 



Part 1, from the Society. 

 Acta Academias Naturae Curiosorum, Vol. XXIII., from the Academy. 

 The Garden Companion, Part X., from the Publishers. 

 The A thenamm for June, July, August, and September, from the Editor. 

 Transactions of the Horticultural Society of Berlin, Part XLII. from the Society. 

 Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Volumes III. and IV. from the Smithsonian 



Institution. 



