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ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. 
THE Society held its Annual Business Meeting on October 
22, at 20 George Street, when the President, Mr Archibald 
Hewat, occupied the chair. After the adoption of the minutes, 
a specimen of the motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca) grown as a 
garden plant at Portobello, sent by Mr Calder, and a stem of 
bramble galled by Diastrophus rubi, shown by Miss Sprague, 
were submitted for the inspection of the members. Mr A. 
Murray intimated that he had seen a nest, with young, of 
the window-swallow or house-martin (Hirundo or Chelidon 
urbica) at West Savile Road on September 29, 1902, and had 
kept it under observation until midday on October 8, when 
soon after the birds left the nest. Messrs Bruce Camp- 
bell and Tom Speedy both referred to instances of second 
broods of the house-martin lingering until late in the season. 
The reports of the adjudicators in the Prize Competitions 
were next taken up. The following report by Mr Alexander 
Somerville, B.Sc., F.L.S., was read :— 
The collection of Grasses bearing the motto “ Sesleria,” consisting of 134 
sheets of specimens gathered in the counties of Edinburgh, Haddington, 
and Linlithgow during the summer of this year (1902), reflects the highest 
credit on the competitor for the Society’s prize, and I may say at once 
that I consider that it well deserves the prize. 
Whether we consider the care exercised in selecting illustrative speci- 
mens, the success that has attended the drying of them, the neatness and 
taste in mounting them, or the accuracy observed in naming so large a 
‘series, we cannot but feel admiration for the industry and skill of which 
there is so clear evidence, and which have admitted of the formation, in a 
single season, of a collection of such outstanding excellence. 
An examination of the sheets enables us to group the plants under five 
heads, as follows :— 
(1) Species indigenous, or probably so, in Scotland ; : 61 
(2) Varieties of species indigenous, or probably so, in Scotland , 24 
(3) Species indigenous in England, but appearing as “casuals” 
only in Scotland : : : : : : 14 
(4) Alien species which are “casuals” only within the British 
Isles, , : - : : : - 19 
(5) Unnamed sheets (13), and duplicates (3) : f : 16 
