PROCKEDINGS. IxHi 



flowered Daphne, named Fortuni, sent from China by Mr. 

 Fortune. 



Books Presented. 



Fourteenth Annual Report of the Royal Horticultural Society of Cornwall. From 



the Society. 

 Le Bon Jardinier for 1846. From M. Vilmorin. 

 The Floricultural Cabinet for January. From Mr. Jos. Harrison. 

 The Botanical Register for January. From the Publishers. 

 Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. \b, Part 2. From the Societv. 

 Third Bulletin of the Proceedings of the National Institute for the Promotion of 



Science at Washington. From the Institute. 

 Miscellanea Botanica, Nos. 2, 3, and 4. From the Author, Signor Antonio Berto- 



loni. (4to., Bologna, 1843, 1844.) 



February 17, 1846. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. The Duke of Cleveland, St. James's Square, and 

 Raby Castle, Durham ; Capt. F. Brandreth, 6, Stanhope 

 Street, Hyde Park ; and Mr. C. Lawson, Jun., of Edin- 

 burgh, Fellows ; and the following Home Corresponding 

 Members : Mr. W. P. Ayres, Mr. J. Barnes, Mr. W. B. 

 Booth, Mr. J. Brown, Mr. D. Cameron, Mr. A Campbell, 

 Mr. T. Corbett, Mr. J. Duncan, Mr. J. Falconer, Mr. R. 

 Fish, Mr. D. Ferguson, Mr. G. Fleming, Mr. A. Forsyth, 

 Mr. J. Green, Mr. J. Henderson, Mr. E. Law, Mr. A. 

 Scott, Mr. J. Spencer, Mr. G. Vinden, Mr. R. Wilson, 

 Mr. J. B. Whiting, Mr. J. M'Nab, Jun., and Mr. R. 

 Reid. 



Awards. Knightian Medal to Mr. J. Robertson, gardener to 

 Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., for three magnificent specimens of 

 Dendroblums, one of the Wallichii, and two of nobile, one 

 of the latter measuring about 5 feet across, and 4 feet in 

 height. 

 Banksian Medals : To Mr. W. P. Ayres, gardener to J. Cook, 

 Esq., of Brooklands, for the magnificent specimen of Erica 

 hiemalis, an account of which appeared at p. 131. To Mr. 

 Fleming, gardener to the Duke of Sutherland, at Tren- 

 tham, for perfectly ripe samples of Black Hamburgh 

 Grapes. 

 Certificates : To Mr. Redding, gardener to Mrs. Maryatt, 

 F.H.S., for a fine Dendrobium nobile. To Messrs. Hen- 

 derson, of Pine Apple Place, for a good plant of Phaius 

 Wallichii ; to Mr. Simmons, of Coleman Street, for his new 

 Hygrometer, figured at p. 129. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Inga pulcherrima, 

 with numerous scarlet heads of long silky stamens, Selago 

 distans, a neat winter flowering plant, and Primula denti- 

 culata, a hardy Himalayan species, which when potted and 



