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tioned species, on which some remarks were also made by Mr. 

 A. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., and others. 



A paper entitled "Remarks on Temperatui-e, Vegetation, etc., 

 in the Royal Botanic Garden, Glasgow, 1888," by Mr. Robert 

 Bullen, Curator, was read.* 



20th February, 1889. 



Mr. A. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



His Grace the Duke of Argyll, K.G., K.T., D.CL., LL.D., 

 F.R.S., Inveraray Castle, was elected an Honorary Member. 



Mr. Janjes Ednumd Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Librarian and 

 Assistant-Secretary of the Linnean Society, was elected a 

 Corresponding Member. 



The following were elected Life Members : Mr. P. Mackinnon, 

 Rosemount, Campbeltown ; Mr. Duncan Macneill. 50 Old Broad 

 Street, London, E.C.; Mr. Edward Tennent, yr. of the Glen, 

 Innerleithen, Peeblesshire; and Mr. H. J. Tennant, 195 West 

 George Street. 



The following were elected Ordinary Members : Mr. James 

 Erskine, M. A., M.B., 6 Newton Street, Charing Cross ; Mr. James 

 Jack, National Bank House, Queen Street ; and Mr. Richard C, 

 Brooman White of Arddarroch, F.R.H.S., Garelochhead. 



The Chairman (Mr. Somerville) as Convener of the Lectures 

 Committee, reported that the fourth Lecture of the Course had 

 been delivered on 12th inst. by Professor D'Arcy W^. Thompson, 

 B.A., F.R.S.E., University College, Dundee, on " Fresh- W'ater 

 and other Polypes." The Lecture, which was illustrated with 

 diagrams and lime-light views, was presided over by Mr. Edward 

 Tennant, yr. of The Glen. 



Mr. R. Broom, B.Sc, exhibited a skull of Epieritivifjlutinosiim, 

 h., an apodous amphibian found in some parts of Asia, and 

 especially interesting as being, in the opinion of Huxley and 

 others, the nearest living ally of the extinct family of labyrin- 

 thodonts. His remarks were further illustrated by drawings 

 showing the structure of the skull in various groups of amphibians. 



iMr. Broom also showed a tAvin apple, and suggested that 

 such abnormalities might probably be instances of atavism. 

 The inflorescence of Pyrus Mains, L., is almost a complete 

 umbel, and the cleavage of the floral axis seen in the twin 

 apple would seem to indicate a reversion to the eymose type of 

 inflorescence met with in a number of the other species of 

 Pyrus. Mr. Broom said he considered the twin apple to be 

 a case of cleavage and not an instance of fasciation. A 

 similar abnormality was exhibited by Mr. F. N. Sloane, C.A. 

 * T)-aiisactionfi, vol. iii., p. 25. 



