TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY. 



SESSION L. 



10^/i December 1S85. — Professor Dickson, President, 

 in the Chair. 



The President briefly reviewed the work of the past 

 year, and congratulated the Society on the state of its 

 finances, notwithstanding the expenditure incurred in 

 connection with Dr Spruce's valuable Monograph on South 

 American Hepaticas, the publication of which is a just 

 source of satisfaction. 



During the summer of 1885 the Camp Committee, by 

 the kind permission of John Bullough, Esq., of Meggernie 

 Castle, explored the upper part of Glenlyon, where they 

 made important collections, which would ere long be laid 

 before the Society. The best thanks of the Fellows were 

 due to Mr Symington Grieve for the energetic way in 

 which he had organised our "new departure" in this 

 direction. 



The Council entered on negotiations as to the purchase 

 of the botanical library of the late Mr Anderson-Henry, but 

 withdrew therefrom, a private purchaser having oflFered to 

 the trustees a larger sum for the library than it was con- 

 sidered proper to ask the Government to advance. 



As regarded the ordinary business of the Society, various 

 important communications had been submitted. 



The Kev. David Landsborough gave the result of his 

 experiments on the cultivation of Australian and New 

 Zealand plants on the east coast of Arran ; and a second 

 communication would be made by him that evening. 



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