1851.] lAnnean Society. 15S 



elevation of from 5000 to 7000 feet. Large quantities of gum are 

 also produced by the wild Almond, a species of Astragalus, and the 

 Pistacia vera, which grow abundantly in the same neighbourhood ; 

 and there is, moreover, a kind of thistle, which exudes honey, espe- 

 cially from the bud, on being pierced by a species of Rhynchophora. 

 Mr. Loftus proposes to resume his observations, as his party pro- 

 ceeds northward, in the course of the ensuing summer. 



November 18. 



R. Brown, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Among the presents announced were an extensive Contribution 

 of Natural Productions of Van Diemen's Land, from the Exhibition 

 of the Industry of all Nations, presented by various Contributors 

 through the intervention of Joseph MHligan, Esq., F.L.S., Secretary 

 of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land. 



Mr. Hogg, F.R.S., F.L.S. &c., presented a branch bearing several 

 bunches of grapes ripened out of doors at Norton, near Stockton, in 

 the county of Durham, in lat. about 54°35'N., being a higher 

 northern latitude than any in which Mr. Hogg had previously known 

 them to ripen in that county. The vine was of the common black- 

 cluster kind, and had been transplanted from a hot-house, where it 

 had previously ripened fruit abundantly. At the end of July in the 

 present year it flowered freely ; in August the berries set well ; they 

 began to change colour about the middle of September ; and on the 

 1st of November they were perfectly ripe and very sweet in flavour, 

 although small from want of water and from not having been suffi- 

 ciently thinned. 



Mr. Adam White, F.L.S., exhibited, on the part of J. H. Gilbert, 

 Esq., Ph.D., of Harpenden, near St. Albans, a portion of a wooden 

 cistern lined with lead and perforated with numerous holes by the 

 Anohium striatum, in relation to which he entered into a detailed ac- 

 count of the circumstances in which it had occurred. In this case 

 the cistern, which belonged to Mr. Curtis, a brewer of Harpenden, 

 was made from an old fermenting tub, which had become much 



