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MEETING OF THE SOCIETY. 

 Thursday, March 10, 1892. 



Dr David Ciiristison, President, in the Chair. 



A, N. M' Alpine, B.Sc. (Lond.), was admitted Resident 

 Fellow of the Society. 



The death of J. T. Wilson, Resident Fellow of the 

 Society, was announced. 



The following contribution to the Illustration Fund was 

 announced : — 



Symington Grieve, £1 : : 0. 



Presents to the Library, Museum, and Herbarium at the 

 Royal Botanic Garden were announced. 



Mr Malcolm Dunn, Dalkeith, exhibited Tillandsia 

 stricta, var., in flower. 



The Curator exhibited, from the Royal Botanic Garden, 

 Saxifraga luteo-imrpurca, a natural hybrid between S. media 

 and S. aretioides, Saxifraga Burseriana and its variety multi- 

 Jlora, and a tuber of Amorplwjjhallus campanulatus recently 

 received from Mr J. H. Storey, Superintendent, Sajjan 

 Niwas Gardens, Oodeypore, Rajpootana. The tuber weighed 

 26 lbs., and produced last year a leaf with a petiole 18 inches 

 in circumference and 6 feet high, the spread of the lamina 

 being 7 feet. The tuber was grown under the shade of a 

 tree of Ficus rcligiosa without protection from sun or rain. 



Dr Paterson, Bridge of Allan, sent for exhibition cut 

 blooms of Cmlogipie cristata alba, Odontoglossum several 

 species, and Crinum Macoioamnn. 



Professor Bayley Balfour exhibited a series of Museum 

 specimens — seedlings, dissections of fruits, &c., mounted on 



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