rilOCEEDlNGS. 



Books Presented. 



Journal of the llombay Branch Royal Asiatic Society. No. XI. From the Society. 

 The Horticultural Magaz,ine, and Gardener and I'raclical Florist. I'art XLVII. 



From the Publisher. 

 The Athenaeum for October. From the luUtor. 

 Proceeilings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. V., No. 40. From the 



Society. 

 A Hand-book of British Ferns ; intended as a guide and companion in Ftrn Culture, 



&c. By Tlioraas Moore. From the Author. 

 Dritter Jahre.sbericht und Mittlieilungen des Gartenbau Vereins fiir Neuvorpom- 



mern iind Riigen. From the Society. 



December 5, 1848. (Regent Street.) 



Various alterations in the by-laws were read for tlie 

 second time by order of the Council, as directed by the 

 Cliarter, and then suspended in the meeting-room. 



Elections. The Marquess of Ormonde, and Joseph H, Bar- 

 chard, Esq., of Putney Heath. 



Awards. Banksian Medal : To Mr. Roberts, gardener to the 

 Duke of Cleveland, at Raby Castle, Durham, for an exhi- 

 bition of Grapes, consisting of two bunches of West's St. 

 Peter, beautifully coloured, weigliing respectively 1 lb. 

 10^ oz., and lib. 12 oz.; a bunch of the Syrian, weighing 

 2 lbs. 6 oz. ; one of Eschcolata Muscat, 1 lb. 3 oz. ; and one 

 of Cannon Hall Muscat, weighing 14 oz. These were 

 stated by Mr. Roberts to have been sent, not as superior 

 specimens of cultivation, but as samples of good table-fruit. 

 " The two bunches of Black Grapes," he added, " are the 

 true West's vSt. Peter, from tlie first year's \a ood of my 

 voung vines grown under 'the detestable' British slieet- 

 glass. The Wliite Grapes are not half so well coloured as 

 they were last season, which is owing to the long dull 

 autumn we have just passed over. The E-chcolata Muscat, 

 which resembles the Syrian, has no properties to recommend 

 it, except such as belong to the Syrian, viz., that it will 

 carry any weight of fruit, and that it hangs well and 

 late." 

 Certificates of Blerit : To the Gardener of E. J. Cooper, 

 Esq., for a collection of Citrus Fruit, from the Orangery at 

 Markree Castle, in the county of Sligo. The varieties 

 were as follows: — 1. Citrus Hissoi, a new variety, disco- 

 vered by the late M. Risso, of Nice Maritime ; this fruit 

 has been grown in the Orangery, at Markree, to the size of 

 23:^ inches in circumference. 2. Citrus Gordon, named 

 by the same botanist in compliment to the present Earl of 

 Aberdeen, also a new variety ; this is an average specimen 

 as to size. 3. C. Bigaradia longifiora, the largest fruit 



