284 TEA])?SACTIONS AXD PEOCEEDIXGS OF THE [Sess. Lix. 



question of alternation of generations from the plane of 

 mere morphological and comparative description towards 

 the higher level of physiological explanation. 



List of the chief Memoirs referred to in the address : — 



Bower. — On Apospory, Linn. Trans., vol. ii., part 14. 



On Antithetic Alternation. Annals of Botany, vol. iv., p. 347. 



Attempts to induce Apospory. Annals of Botany, vol. iv., 



p. 168. 



Studies on Spore-producing Members. Phil. Trans. (1894). 



De Baet. — Ueber Apogame Fame. Bot Zeit. (1878), p. 449. 

 Dixon. — Fertilisation of Pinus silvestris. Annals of Botany, 



vol. viii., p. 21. 

 Farmer. — Studies in Hepaticae. Annals of Botany, vol. viii., p. 35. 

 Farlow. — On Apogamous Ferns. Q.J.M.S. (1874). 

 GuiGNARD. — Nouvelles Etudes sur la Fecondation. Ann. Sci. Nat. 



Ser 7, torn. xiv. 

 Hertwig.— Die Zelle und die Gewebe (1892). 

 HcMPHRET. — Nucleolen und Centrosomen. Ber. d. d. Bot. Ges. 



(1894), Heft. 5. 

 OvERTOX. — On the Reduction of Chromosomes. Annals of Botany, 



vii., p. 139. 

 Prds'GSheim. — Ueber Sprossung der Mossfriichte. Pringsh. Jahrb.. 



Bd. xi., p. 18. 

 Stahl. — Ueber kiinstlich hervorgerufene Protonema - bildung. 



Bot. Zeit. (1876). 

 Strasbl'RGEr. — Neue Beobachtungen. Bot. Zeit. (1879), p. 265. 

 " The Periodic Reduction of the Number of the Chromosomes." 



Annals of Botany, vol. viii., p. 281. Where references to 



the above and many other works on the subject will be 



found. 



On the motion of the Rev. Dr. Paul the thanks of the 

 Society were given to the President for his address. 



The President made the following announcement re- 

 garding the Poll of the Society : — 



During the past year the Society lost by death : — 1 Honorary 

 Biitish Fellow — Richard Spruce. 2 Honorary Foreign 

 Fellows — Pierre Duchartre, Paris ; Nathan Pringsheim, 

 Berlin. 3 Resident Fellows — Sir Thomas Buchan-Hepburn, 

 Bart. ; Alexander Gellatly ; Robert Hutchison. 2 Non- 

 Resident Fellows — Rev. George Gordon ; A. Stephen Wilson. 



1 Associate — Joseph Whittaker. — Total, 9. 



During the same period the Society received the following 

 accessions: — 9 Resident Fellows — Sir A. Buchan-Hepburn, 

 Bart. ; Mrs. A. Dowall ; R. C. Munro Fergmon. M.P. ; Lady 

 Henry Grosvenor ; Reginald MacLeod ; Miss Katherine Millar ; 

 Alexander Porteous ; A. Thomson ; Percival C. Waite. 



2 Non-Resident Fellows — James Grieve, M.D. ; J. J. Mooney, 

 M.D. 2 Lady }*Iembers— Miss E. Madden: Miss C. C. 

 Pearson.— Total. 13. 



