Ixiv PEOCEEDINGS. 



placed in the greenhouse is very ornamental for a long time 

 in spring. 



Books Presented. 



Floricultural Cabinet for February. From Mr. Jos. Harrison. 



A Treatise on the true Nature and Cause of the present destructive Disease of Pota- 

 toes, with the means of cure. By George Weightman, of Selston, near Nottingham. 

 (36mo., London, 1846.) 



The Botanical Register for February. From the Publishers. 



Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. Vol. 6, Part 2. From the So- 

 ciety. 



The Athenaeum for January. From the Editor. 



March 3, 1846. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. J. J. Blandy, Esq., of High Grove, Reading. 



Awards. K?iiffhtian Medals : To Mr. Robertson, gardener to 

 Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., for various Orchids, especially 

 Scl^omburgkia violacea, and a new Odontoglossum with 

 spotted white flowers ; and to Messrs. Loddiges, of Hack- 

 ney, for Ansellia Africana, a new Orchid from Tropical 

 Africa, so named after Mr. John Ansell, who, when he 

 was out with the Niger expedition, found it growing on the 

 trunk of the Oil Palm in the Island of Fernando Po. 



Banksian Medal to Mr. Green, gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, 

 Bart., for a magnificent specimen of the best variety of 

 Erica aristata. 



Certificate to Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Exeter, for a new 

 yellow-flowered Tropaeolum, sent by Mr. Lobb from Peru. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Cuttings of the 

 Glout Morceau de Cambron Pear, a variety little known, 

 perfectly distinct from the Glout Morceau, and more re- 

 sembling the Napoleon in its form and juicy flesh, which 

 is, however, of firmer consistency than that ol the la.st-named 

 variety. It ripens in November. 



Books Presented. 



Transactions of the Agricultural Society of Vienna. Vol. 2, Part. 2. New Series. 



From tlie Society. 

 The Botanical Register for March. From the Publishers. 

 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. No. 16, Part 2. From the .Society. 

 Flora Batava, Nos. 13'i and 140. From His Majesty the King of Holland. 

 Transactions of the .\merican Pliilosophioal Society lield at Philadelphia. Vol. 9, 



Part 2. New Series; and Proceedings of the Society. Nos. 32 and 33. From the 



Society. 



March 17, 1846. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. Mr. J. Glenny, 152, Strand, London; and Mr. 

 T. A. Perry, King's Road, Chelsea. 



Awards. Banksian Medals : To Mr. Rae, gardener to J. J. 

 Blandy, Esq., Reading, for two specimens of Phaius gran- 



