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MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, 



Thursday, March 8, 1894. 



Professor Bower, President, in the Chair. 



Sir A. BucHAX Hepburn, Bart., and Mr. A. Thomson, 

 were elected Eesident Fellows of the Society. 



The President informed the Society of the death of 

 Eobert Hutchison and of Alexander Galletly, Fellows 

 of the Society, and of Joseph AVhittaker, Associate. 



Cut iiowers of Hcpatica triloba, Scilla sibcrica, Narcissus 

 pseudo-narcissus and JY. BulljococUiLm, Berheris Darvnnii, Bibes 

 sanguincum, and Daphne Mezercum were exhibited from the 

 open garden of Mr. Campbell, at Ledaig, Argyllshire. 



Mr. KuTHERFORD HiLL exhibited specimens of the 

 flowers from which Dalmatian insect powder is prepared. 

 These were the flower-heads of the Fyrethrum cinerarice- 

 foliura, Treviranus, a native of Dalmatia and Montenegro. 

 The flowers imported from Dalmatia were cultivated chiefly 

 at Citta Vecchia and Eagusa, and were also collected from 

 wild plants growing on the hills in Montenegro. The wild 

 flowers v.'ere reputed to yield the most powerful insecticide. 

 The plant w-as now cultivated in Australia, South Africa, 

 California, and near Berlin. It was a comparatively hardy 

 plant, growing at an elevation of from 6000 to 7000 

 feet. The original insect powder came from Persia, being 

 yielded by two allied species, the Pyrcthruni roscurn and 

 P. carneum, Bieberstein. All authorities agreed that the 

 Dalmatian powder was a superior insecticide to the Persian, 

 and this comparative weakness of the latter had been 

 attributed to the fact that the flowers of the Persian 



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