CONTENTS. 



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Chairman's Introductory Address : — Some Remarks on the Study of 

 Mosses. By William B. Boyd, Esq. of Faldonside, 181 



Obituary Notice of Professor Balfour, M.D 187 



,, Mr Isaac Anderson-Henry 189 



„ Mr George Bentham 190 



„ Henrich Robert Goeppert, M.D 192 



„ Mr John Ballantine 192 



C. H. Millar, F.R.S.E 192 



„ Rev. George Macfarlane 192 



„ Thomas Greig of Glencarse 193 



Report on Australian and New Zealand Plants gi'own on the East 

 Coast of Arran. By the Rev. D. Landsborough, Kilmarnock, 194 



Notes on some of the larger Palms in the Palm-Stove of the Royal 



Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. By Robert Lindsay, Curator.... 197 



On the Occurrence of Carex salina, "Wahlnbg., /3 Kattegatenms, Fries, 

 in Scotland. By Arthur W. Bennett, F.L.S., Croydon 201 



Report on the Excursion of the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club to 

 Teesdale and Kirkby Lonsdale in 1884. Bv William Craig, 

 M.D., F.R.S.E., F.R.C.S. Ed \ 203 



On some New Cases of Epiphytism among Algse. By John Rattray, 

 M.A., B.Sc, F.R.S.E., Scottish Marine Station, Granton, Edin- 

 burgh 209 



Note on Strophanthus hisindus, with Exhibition of Specimens obtained 

 from Mr John Buchanan. By Professor Thomas R. Eraser, 

 M.D., F.R.SS. L. and E 219 



Report on Temperatures and Open-Air Vegetation at the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from July 1884 to June 1885. By 

 Robert Lindsay, Curator 221 



Report on Temperature and Vegetation in the Garden of the Royal 

 Institution of Glasgow during 1884-1885. By R. Bullen, 

 Curator 232 



Notes on the Vegetation and Vegetable Products of Blantyre and 



Zomba Districts of Africa. By John Buchanan, Associate 235 



Note on Asplenium germanicum. By John Lowe, M.D., King's 



Lynn 242 



Preliminary Note on the Evolution of Oxygen by Sea Weeds. By 

 John Rattray, M.A., B.Sc, F.R.S.E., Scottish Marine Station, 

 Granton, Edinburgh 244 



