Nov. 1891.] THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 193 



Mr Thomas Jamieson was admitted a non-Eesident 

 Fellow of the Society. 



The Transactions and Proceedings of the Society during 

 the Session 1890-91, which had been issued to Members in 

 parts in course of the Session, were laid on the table. 



Presents to the Library, Museum, and Herbarium at the 

 Eoyal Botanic Garden were announced. 



The Curator exhibited from the Ptoyal Botanic Garden a 

 spadix of Ptyclwsperma clegans, with ripe fruit, from a tree 

 over 50 feet high in the Palm House ; a large plant of 

 Saxifraga longifolia vera, and a collection of New Zealand 

 species of Veronica. 



Mr John Campbell exhibited blooms of Escallonia ma- 

 crantJia, Veronica speciosa van, and Fassijiora " Constance 

 Elliot," from plants growing in the open air in his garden at 

 Ledaig, Argyleshire. 



The retiring President, Mr PtOBERT Lindsay, delivered the 

 following Address : — 



Gentlemen, — It is now my duty to demit the high office 

 to which you did me the honour of electing me, and I have 

 to acknowledge the uniform kindness and sympathy which I 

 have received at your hands, and to return you my most 

 cordial thanks for the support thus accorded me. 



We are now entering on the fifty-sixth session of the 

 Botanical Society, and I venture to affirm that, from the suc- 

 cess which has uniformly attended it during that long period, 

 we may confidently anticipate greater results in the future. 



Last Session has been a prosperous one, and many valu- 

 able and interesting communications have been made. The 

 success which has attended the printing and issuing of the 

 Transactions, at short intervals, is so decided as to render a 

 return to the old method well-nigh impossible. Authors 

 have now the satisfaction of knowing that their papers will 

 be printed and issued immediately after they have been read 

 before the Society, instead of being held back until the close of 

 a Session, and even until far into a new one, to be published 



