TRANSACTIONS AND l'KOCEEI)IN(;S 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



SESSION LXI. 



Meeting of the Society, Xovember 9, 1896. 



Dr. A. P. AiTKEX, President, in tlie Chair. 



The following Officers of the Society were elected for 

 the Session 1896-97 : — 



PRESIDENT. 

 Andrew P. Aitken, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S.E. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS. 



Colonel Fred. Bailet, R.E. Andrew Semple, M.D., F.K.C.S.E. 



Professor F. 0. Bower, Sc.D., Robert Tcrnbull, B.Sc. 



F.R.SS. L. & E.. F.L.S. 



COUNCILLORS. 



W. Bonnar. 



Sir Alex. Christison, Bart.. M.D. 



William Craig, M.D.. F.R.S.E., 



F.R.C.S.E. 

 T. Clthbert Day, 

 Professor Cossar Ewart, ^LD., 



F.R.SS. L.&E. 



Symington Grieve. 

 J. Rutherford Hill. 

 Commander F. M. Xorman, R.N. 

 Rev. David Paul, M.A., LL.D. 

 William Watson. M.D. 



Houorari/ Secretary — Professor Sir Douglas Maclagan, M.D., LL.D., 



Hon. F.-P.R.S.E. 

 Honorarti Curator — The Professor of Botany. 

 Foreign Secretary — Andrew P. Aitken, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S.E. 

 Treasurer — Richard Brow.v, C.A. 

 Assistant &cre<a?v/— James Adam Terras, B.Sc. 

 ,-lr;tA<— Francis M. Caird, M.B., CM., F.R.C.S.E. 

 Auditor — Robert C. Millar, C.A. 



TKANS. BOT. SOC. EDIX. VOL. XXI. A 



Issued November 1807. 



