Ixxii PKOCEEUINGS. 



July 3, 1849. (Regent Street.) 



Lecture. Dr. Lindley's Lecture to-day, the fifth of the series, 

 was principally confined to the structure and use of the 

 organs which constitute the flower, and to the circumstances 

 which are most favourable or vmfavourable to its complete 

 formation, its alteration, its colour, and the production of 

 fruit, which production is the great end of the existence of 

 a flower. The cause of fruit being blind, of grapes not 

 setting, of flowers falling from the branches, and of similar 

 accidents, together with the history of monstrous or double 

 fruits, were among the questions discussed on this occasion. 

 Specimens of Acropera Batemanni and another species 

 of the genus were exhibited by Mr. Lane, jun. 



July 17, 1849. (Regent Street.) 



Election. J. Brown, Esq., Rossington, near Doncaster, 

 Yorkshire. 



Awards. Banksian Medal: To Mr. Jones, gardener to Sir 

 J. J. Guest, Bart., of Dowlais House, Glamorganshire, for 

 four Queen Pine Apples, nicely swelled, well-grown fruit, 

 whose weights were respectively 4 lbs. 5 oz., 4 lbs. 8 oz., 

 4 lbs. 9oz., and 4 lbs. 12 oz. 



Dr. Lindley delivered his concluding Lecture " on the 

 Diseases of Plants, the nature of Vegetable Affections, their 

 Causes, whether constitutional or local, and the Remedies 

 which experience had pointed out, or that reason suggested." 

 The nature and mode of action of Mildew plants, by which 

 so much injury is committed, was also explained by drawings 

 and diagrams. 



August 7, 1849. (Regent Street.) 



Awards. Banksiari Medals : To Messrs. Fairbairn, of Clap- 

 ham, for a collection of large and finely-cultivated Cape 

 Heaths, consisting of three varieties of E. ampullacea, 

 Irbyana, Lee's tricolor, and infundibuliformis. To Mr. 

 Jones, gardener to Sir J. J. Guest, Bart., of Dowlais House, 

 Glamorganshire, for a Queen Pine Apple, beautifully 

 swelled and handsome, weighing 5 lbs. 5 oz. To Mr. 

 Monro, gardener to Mrs. Oddie, of Colney House, St. 

 Alban's, for eighteen fine-looking fruit of his hybrid Egyp- 

 tian green-fleshed Melon ; the average weight of these fruit 

 was about 5 lbs., but one weighed 9 lbs. 3^ oz. It was 

 stated that 28 fruit had been cut from under 5 lights; 



