xl PROCEEDINGS. 



May 6, 1845. (Regent Street.) 

 Elections. E. A. De Grave, Esq., 4, Park Row, Knights- 

 bridge ; H. J. Milbank, Esq., Thorpe Perrow, Bedale, York- 

 shire ; and Mr. C. Wood, Maresfield, Sussex. 



Awards. Banhsian Medals : To Mr. J. Wells, gardener to 

 W. Wells, Esq., for various beautiful cut blooms of Rho- 

 dodendrons, especially of R. campanulatum. The principal 

 part of them had been kept during winter under the canvass 

 of a Tulip shade, assisted by mats at the sides in very 

 severe weather, but exposed to the weather at all favourable 

 times. To the Dean of AYinchester for a collection of 

 blooms of hybrid Rhododendrons, including a spurious 

 variety of R. campanulatum. These had stood the winter 

 unprotected in the open gardens at Bishopstoke. To Mr. 

 W. P. Ayres, gardener to J. Cook, Esq., F.H.S., for fine 

 plants of the Begonias coccinea and suaveolens, and the 

 ]iretty New Holland Chorozema angustifolium. To Mr. J. 

 Robertson, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., for an ex- 

 ceedingly handsome Erica propendens. To Messrs. Lod- 

 diges, of Hackney, for a plant of the new Epacris miniata. 

 Certificate: To Mr. Edmonds, gardener to his Grace the 

 Duke of Devonshire, at Chiswick, for beautiful cut blooms 

 of Rhododendron formosum. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Cyrtochilum has- 

 tatum; Eriostemon buxifolium, a pretty New Holland 

 shrub ; Spiraea Reevesiana, a hardy species, but whose pretty 

 heads of white flowers and fine green foliage render it well 

 worthy of a place in the greenhouse, where it is very orna- 

 mental at this season. Seeds of Buddlea Lindleyana were 

 also distributed. This is a native of Chusan, where it was 

 found by Mr. Fortune, growing in ravines and on banks, 

 in company with Glycine sinensis ; it was said to form a 

 fine shrub 5 or 6 feet in height, with clusters of deep violet 

 flowers, probably as large as those of the Persian lilac. 



Books Presented. 



The Floricultural Cabinet, Nos. 146 and 147. From Mr. Jos. Harrison. 



The Florists' Journal, No. 72. From the Editor. 



The Botanical Register for May. From the Publishers. 



The Flora Batava, Nos. 133 to 136. From His Majesty the King of Holland. 



Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Nos. 30 and 31. From the 

 Society. 



A Public Discovirse in commemoration of Peter S. Du Ponceau, LL.D, late President 

 of the American Philosophical Society, delivered by Robley Dunglison, M.D., 

 October 25, 1844. From the Society at Philadelphia. 



Catalogus Plantarum in Horto Botanico Bogoriensi. (8vo., Batavia, 1844.) 



Abhandlungen der Mathematische Physikalischen Classe der Bayerischen Akademie 

 der Wissenschaften, Vol. 4. Part 1. 



Bulletin, do., do., No. 56 to 64, 1843 ; and No. 1 to 50, 1844. From the Royal Ba- 

 varian Academy at Munich. 



