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MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, 



Thursday, December 11, 1890. 



Egbert Lindsay, President, in the Chair. 



Hugh E. C. Cleghorn, M.D., E.L.S., F.E.S.E., was elected 

 Honorary British Fellow in room of Eev. Miles Joseph 

 Berkeley, F.E.S., deceased. 



J. C. Wright, F.E.S.E., Eichaed Brown, C.A., George 

 Hunter, M.D., F.E.C.S.E., M.E.C.P.E., John Wilson, D.Sc, 

 and Egbert A. Egbertson, M.A., B.Sc, were elected Eesident 

 Fellows of the Society. 



John Wilson, D.Sc, and Egbert A. Egbertson, M.A., 

 B.Sc, were admitted Eesident Fellows of the Society. 



Presents to the Library, Museum and Herbarium at the 

 Eoyal Botanic Garden were announced. 



D. Somerville exhibited branches of Finns sylvestris, 

 bearing trifoliar instead of the usual bifoliar spurs, and 

 shoots of Acer psendo-platamis, from the stump of a felled 

 tree, which, owing to the excess of nutriment available, had 

 developed ternary instead of binary whorls of leaves. 



The following Papers were read : — 



Excursion of the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club 

 to Connemara, in August 1890. By William Craig, 

 M.D., F.E.S.E., F.E.C.S.E., Secretary of the Club. 



On Monday, 4th August, the following members of the 

 Scottish Alpine Botanical Club — viz., William B. Boyd, Vice- 

 President ; Dr A. P. Aitken, Dr Charles Stuart, Eev. David 

 Paul, Eobert Lindsay, George H. Potts, Eev. W. W. Peyton, 

 and Dr William Craig — left Edinburgh at 4 p.m. for the West 

 of Ireland. We travelled by the Caledonian Eailway as far 



Issued March 1891. 



