XXX PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
place at next Ordinary Meeting. Ordinary Members shall 
have no vote in elections or in the transaction of the 
business of the Society, and they shall have no interest in 
its property. They shall pay the sum of five shillings on 
admission, and shall contribute five shillings annually 
thereafter, at the November meeting. They may also 
receive copies of the Transactions published subsequent to 
their admission, at prices to be fixed from time to time by 
the Council of the Society. 
In the event of this new Law being enacted : 
That the following words in Chapter L, Law 3, be 
deleted :— 
“of Lady Members elected under the rule Chapter 
“TV. Section 6 hereof, and of Associates elected 
“under the rule Chapter IV. Section 5 hereof.” 
And that the following words be substituted :— 
“of Associates elected under the rule Chapter IV. 
“Section 5 hereof, and of Lady Members elected 
“under the rule Chapter IV. Section 6 hereof, and 
“of Ordinary Members elected under the rule 
“Chapter IV. Section 7 hereof.” 
Mr. W. T. Gorpon, M.A., B.Sc., gave a lantern demon- 
stration on the relation between the Osmundacece and the 
Zygopteridec. 
Mr. SYMINGTON GRIEVE showed seeds of the Sand-box 
tree (Hwra crepitans, Linn.). 
Mr. J. RuTHERFORD HILL, Ph.C., exhibited Pinus sylves- 
tris, Linn., showing bifoliar shoots replaced by carpellary 
flowers or cones. 
This remarkable specimen was found by a gamekeeper 
in a plantation in a rather inaccessible part of the estate 
of Traquair, near Innerleithen. The tree on which it was 
found was a well-grown Scots fir about thirty feet high, 
which had been blown down in one of the recent gales. From — 
the estate records it appears that this plantation was planted 
between 1855 and 1860, so that the tree would be probably 
fifty-five years old. The specimen consists of a dense 
