JULT 1892.] THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 447 



MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, 

 Thursday, July 14, 1892. 



Egbert Lindsay, Vice-President, in the Chair, 



David Harvie and Julius John Wood, M.B., were elected 

 Resident Fellows of the Society. 



The death of Augustino Todabo, Professor of Botany and 

 Director of the Botanic Garden, Palermo, Corresponding 

 Member of the Society, was announced. 



Mr William Sanderson exhibited a large specimen of 

 Oncidium Wentioorthianum. 



The Curator exhibited Alhuca sp., Natal, Brachycome 

 Sindairii, Erica cinerca atrosanguinea, Fdraianthus dahnaticus, 

 Lisa grandiflora, Fuchsia triphyUa, Goodyera ^juhescens, Myosotis 

 alyestris (Ben Lawers), Penta'pterygium rngosujn, Folemonium 

 paucijlorum, Primula Poissonii, Silene pusilla, Saxifraga 

 cuscutieformis in flower in the Royal Botanic Garden. 



The following paper was read : — 



On Roridula dentata. By Professor Bayley Balfour. 



On Temperature and Vegetation in the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Edinburgh, during June 1892. By Robert 

 Lindsay, Curator of the Garden. 



The past month has been rather cold and wet for June 

 still it has well maintained its character of being the " leafy 

 month." The main feature has been the rapid growth which 

 took place during the month. Frost was registered on the 

 morning of the 14th, a most unusual occurrence so late in 

 the season. The lowest readings were on the 12th, 38°; 

 13th, 35°; 14th, 32°; I7th, 35°; 18th, 39°. The lowest day 



