BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBUKGH XXI 



Dr. R. Stewart MacPougall, M.A., exhibited a number 

 of Apples injured by Phyllopertha horticola^ two specimens 

 of Birch attacked by Scolytus Ratzeburgii, and other two in 

 which the Scolytus had been in turn attacked by wood- 

 peckers. 



Mr. J. EuTiiERFORD HiLL exhibited a large collection of 

 Arrow and Ordeal I'oisons, as well as a number of Poisoned 

 Arrows. 



Mr. J. EuTHERFORD HiLL communlcatcd an Obituary 

 Notice of the late Dr. J. E. T. Aitchison, LT..D., C.T.E., 

 F.E.S. 



Mr. Percy Groom, F.L.S., communicated a paper entitled 

 The Significance of Nuclear Fusions in Plants. 



Meeting of the Society, January 12, 1899. 

 Dr. William Watson, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. A. W. Borthwick, B.Sc, proposed by E. A. Eobert- 

 SON, M.A., B.Sc, seconded by James A. Terras, B.Sc; and 

 Mr. Alex. Morton, B.Sc, proposed by E. Turnbull, B.Sc, 

 seconded by F. C. CRA^VF0RD, F.E.S.E., — were balloted for 

 and duly elected Eesident Fellows of the Society. They 

 thereafter signed the Laws of the Society. 



The President exhibited to the Society specimens of 

 Trcmellodon gelatinosum . 



Dr. E. Stewart MacDougall, M.A., exhibited specimens 

 of Goes tigrina, with examples of the damage inflicted by it 

 on timber. 



Mr. Symington Grieve read a communication entitled 

 Notes on Andromeda 'polifolia, Linn., with special reference 

 to a new station for the plant in Liddesdale. 



