Contents. vi 



Page 

 Haberlandf s Views on the Thysiological Functions of Plant Tissues. By 



G. F. Scott Elliot, B.A 261 



Notes of a Visit to North America, as Delegate to the British Association 



^Meeting at ^Montreal, and to the American Association at Philadelphia, 



1SS4. ByAV. Caldwell Crawford 269 



Obituary Notice of the late T. C Archer, F.R.S.E., Director of the Museum 



of Science and Art, Edinburgh. By A. Galletlt, Curator 272 



Notes on the Grasses of the Southern Punjab. By "W. COLDSTREAM, B.A., 



H.M. Bengal Civil Service 277 



Miscellaneous Contributions and E.^ibitions 280 



Otiice- Bearers and New Fellows 284 



Additions to Library, Herbarium, and Museum 286 



List of Members 293 



SESSION L. 



Introductoi-y Address by the President, Professor DiCKSOX 301 



Obituary Notice of William Benjamin Carpenter, C.B. , M.D., LL.D., 



F.Pv.S. By A^-T)REW T.^TLOR 303 



ObitiTary Notice of Edmond Boissier 308 



, , , , Dunbar James Douglas 309 



Alexander Croall -309 



,, "William Wilson Evans -311 



„ James Welsh : 312 



, , , , James F. Eobinson 313 



On Calanutf/rostis strigosa (Hartmann) as a British Plant, and two Carex 



Forms new to Scotland, &c. By A. Bennett, F.L.S., Croydon 313 



A Forest Toixr in Provence and the Cevennes. By Major F. Bailet, R.E. 



(With Map) 317 



On the Fertilisation of Epipadis latifolia. By A. D. Webster, Llandegai, 



Penrhyn 347 



Report on the Excursion of the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club to Killin 

 and Loch Awe in 18S.5. By William Ckaig, M.D., F.R.C.S. Ed., 



F.R.S.E 352 



On the Growth and Fertilisation of Ci/pripedium Cakcohts. By A. D. 



Webster, Llandegai, Pem-hyn 357 



Carex hdvola, Blytt, in Scotland. By ARTHUR Bennett, F.L.S 361 



On a Method of Transmitting Living Plants Abroad. By Robert Lind.SAT, 



Cru-ator, Royal Botanic Garden 363 



On the Adaptation of AWuca Corymbosa, Baker, and Alhiica juncifoUa, 

 Baker, to Insect Fertilisation. By John Wilson, University of St 



Andrews. (Plate XIL) 36.5 



On certain Properties of Rosewood and some other Hard Woods; By A. 



Galletlt, Museum of Science and Art, Eilinburgh 371 



The Inflorescence, Floral Structure, and Fertilisation of Sa-opkularia 

 aquatica and S. nodosa. By T. Wemtss Fulton, M.B., C.M. (Plate 



Xm.) 379 



Report of Half-Hardy Plants Growing on the East Coast of Arran. By the 



Rev. D. Landsborough, Kilmarnock 390 



The Marine Algce of Joppa, in the County of Mid-Lothian. By George 



Wm. Traill _. 395 



Report on Temperatures and Open-Air Vegetation at the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Edinburgh, from July 1885 to June 1886. By Robert 



Lindsay, Curator of the Garden 403 



On the Nature and Causes of Variation in Plants. By Patrick Geddes, 



F.R.S.E. (Plate XIV.) 416 



The Botanico-Geogiaphical Exhibition at Copenhagen in 1885, instituted 

 by JM. Carl Hansen, Professor of Agriculture at the Royal Academy, 



Copenhagen. By Andrew Taylor 418 



The Distribution of the Marine Algre of the Firth of Forth. By JoHV 



Rattray, M.A., B.Sc, F.R.S.E 420 



On Certain Points in the Morphology of FruUania and some other Leafy 

 JuiHi€rmanni«e. By Professor Alexander Dickson, M.D. (Plate 



XV.) '. 466 



Account of a Botanical Journey to the West African Coast, with List of 



Plants found. By J. Rattray, M.A., B.Sc, F.R.S.E 472 



