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MEETING or THE SOCIETY, 

 Thursday, February 11, 1892. 



Dr David Christison, President, in the Chair. 



A. N. M'Alpine, B.Sc. (Lond.), was elected Eesident 

 Fellow of the Society. 



The following contributions to the Illustration Fund were 

 announced : — 



Presents to the Library, Museum, and Herbarium at the 

 lioyal Botanic Garden were announced. 



Mr Malcolm Dunn, Dalkeith, exhibited flowering twigs 

 of Chi'inonantlius fragrans, Garrya elliptica, Jasniinum muli- 

 florum, Helleborus sp., and other spring flowering plants. 



The Curator exhibited, from the Eoyal Botanic Garden, 

 flowering twigs of Hamamclis japonica and of Acokanthera 

 veneneta, the Bushman's poison-bush from South Africa, the 

 active principle of which is now being investigated in Edin- 

 burgh. 



Dr Cleghorn read an 



Obituaky Notice of Dom Pedro II., late Emperor of 

 Brazil. By His Excellency Dr Pt. Halliday Gunning. 



The late Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro II., who died in 

 Paris on the 5th of December last, being an Honorary 

 Fellow, deserves some notice from the Botanical Society 

 of Edinburgh. In character, as a man, a patriot, and 

 a philanthropist, Dom Pedro stood very high, and in 

 learning and knowledge of Science and Art he had no equal 

 among modern Sovereigns. This was the opinion of the late 



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Issued April 1892. 



