BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH XXVI1 
3. THE Soya BEAN AND ITS REPUTED PoIsoNouUS PRO- 
PERTIES. By WiLLiAM Moopig, F.R.C.V.S. Communicated 
by Dr. R. Stewart MacDouGaLt. 
Mr. W. Batrour Gour.ay, B.A., showed slides of rabbit- 
pruned gorse from rabbit warren near Elgin. 
Mr. J. RUTHERFORD HILL showed a piece of perforated 
quartz through which a root had grown. 
Mr. R. L. Harrow showed the following plants in flower 
from the Royal Botanic Garden:—Abutilon imsigne, 
Begonia Gloire de Sceaux, Centropogon Lueyanus, 
Cotyledon fulgens, Coprosma rhamnoides, Coleus Mahoni, 
Cyclamen persicum, Dracontiwum gigas, Lelia harpophylla, 
Santalum album. 
MARCH 10, 1910. 
T. Bennet Ciark, Esq., C.A., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. F. GRAHAME MILLAR was elected a Non-Resident 
Fellow. 
The PRESIDENT gave notice of motion on Alteration of 
Laws as follows :— 
CHAPTER IV., SECTION 5. Associates and Honorary 
Associates. 
That the present Law be deleted and the following Laws 
substituted : 
1. The Society shall have power to elect by ballot, on 
the recommendation of the Council, Associates, being ladies 
or gentlemen who, though not desiring to become Resident 
or Non-Resident Fellows, are interested in the objects of 
the Society. The name of any candidate proposed as an 
Associate shall be submitted to the Council on a formal 
application, signed by two Resident Fellows, to one of 
whom at least the candidate must be personally known, 
and, if approved, the ballot for such candidate will take 
place at next Ordinary Meeting. Associates shall have no 
vote in elections or in the transaction of the business of 
