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it would appear, in the greatest abundance in the Persian provinces 

 of Khorassan and Laar ; and thence extends on the one hand into 

 the plains of Turkestan upon the Oxus, -where it seems to have been 

 met with by Sir Alexander Burnes, and on the other stretches across 

 from Beloochistan, through Candahar and other provinces of AfFgha- 

 nistan, to the eastern side of the valley of the Indus in Astore. Dr. 

 Falconer has not met with it in Cashmeer. 



Besides the gura-resin, the fruits of the Narthex Asafcetida are also 

 imported into India for medicinal use, and along with them the fruits 

 of another umbelliferous plant which Dr. Falconer found to belong 

 to a true Ferula, and which are sold under the name of Doogoo ; a 

 word evidently connected with the Greek cuvkos. Of these fruits 

 he gives a description ; and he also mentions another umbelliferous 

 fruit in the collection of Dr. Royle, labelled as " the seed of the 

 Wild Asafcetida plant, collected and brought to England by Sir John 

 MacNeill from Persia," which differs widely from the fruit both of 

 Narthex and Ferula, and belongs to another tribe of the Order. 



November 17. 



E. Forster, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



Francis James Graham, Esq., B. A., and William White Williams, 

 Esq., M.D., were elected Fellows ; and Mr. William Hanson was 

 elected an Associate, 



Read a portion of Dr. William Buchanan Hamilton's " Commen- 

 tary on the Hortus Malabaricus of Van Rheede." 



December 1. 



E. Forster, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



George Busk. Esq., David Barclay Chapman, Esq., William Robert 

 Fisher, Esq., and Adam White, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



Read a paper " On the Structure and Movements of Bacillaria 



