1839.] Linnean Society. 13 



ferent aspect in different seasons, being in some covered with the 

 most luxuriant herbage, which at other times is parched and dried 

 up. Many genera of the preceding class occur in these localities, 

 besides Lythrum, Epilobium, Potentilla, Leuzea, Rumex, and other 

 European genera. The author regrets that the season was too far 

 advanced to examine the Graminece and Cyperacece, which abound 

 in this region. 



5th. Alpine vegetation. — This was traced by the author to the 

 summit of Mount WilUam the Fourth.* These mountains being verj?- 

 extensive, will yield a great harvest to future travellers. The few 

 plants collected by the author in this first investigation were two 

 species of Gentiana, Mniarum, Sphagnum, Di-acophyllum, Azeroe, Co- 

 prosma, Podolepis, some of the latter genus being three feet high. 



February 19. 



The Lord Bishop of Norwich, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. George Dickie, of Aberdeen, was elected an Associate of the 

 Society. 



Read, " Extracts from Letters addressed to Dr. Royle, V.P.R. & 

 F.L.S., Prof. Mat. Med., King's College." By Dr. Falconer, Super- 

 intendent of the Hon. E. L C.'s Garden, Saharunpore. 



Under date of January 24, 1837, from Saharunpore, Dr. Falconer 

 gives a general report of the state of the garden. 



" The Bixa Orellana," he remarks, " now flowers and fruits freely. 

 The umbelliferous flowered Panax, near the cinnamon tree, is now 

 a large and lofty tree, and there are numbers of it all over the gar- 

 den. The Bombay Mangoes and Leechees are abundant with us. 

 The medicinal garden still gives the annual supply of Hyoscyamus, 

 and the Canal nursery turns out about 2000 teaks. The Otaheite 

 sugar cane, brought up by Colvin, is likely soon to spread all over 

 the district ; it has succeeded famously here, and I have now in pre- 

 paration about a couple of beegahs of ground outside the garden for 

 it. I am also preparing for sowing about twenty beegahs with up- 

 land Georgia cotton seed, which will undoubtedly be most success- 



* According to a recent calculation, made from the degree of temperatm-e 

 at which water boiled on the top of this mountain (viz. 196°), it possesses an 

 absohite height of SOOO feet, being by far the highest point reached hitherto 

 by any traveller in Australia. 



