492 TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Sess. lx. 



State of Funds. 



Amount of Funds at close of Session 1893-94 . . £64 13 3 



Deduct— Decrease during Session 1894-95, as above . 2 14 10 



Amount of Funds at close of Session 1894-95 . . £61 18 5 

 Being : — Sum on Current Account with Union 



Bank .... £577 



Sum in Deposit Receipt do. 60 



£65 7 7 

 Less due to Treasurer . .392 



£61 18 5 



On the motion of Dr. William Craig, seconded by 

 Professor Bayley Balfour, the report was adopted and 

 the Treasurer thanked for his services. 



Miss Madden exhibited dried plants from Queensland. 



Mr. E. Stewart M'Dougall exhibited a piece of wood 

 from a table riddled by Anohiuni doniesticum, and described 

 a number of allied species. 



Mr. James Grieve exhibited a piece of stem of Holly, 

 which he had budded forty years previously, showing scars 

 from the budding. 



From the Royal Botanic Garden were exhibited plants 

 in flower of — Cattleya lahiata Percivaliana, Cypriioedium 

 venuatum, C. Leeanum, C. Dautherii, Pleurothallis oi'nata, 

 Masdevallia polystida, Oncidiuni Cavendishianum, Bpiden- 

 di'um iMniculatum. 



The following papers were read : — 



The Germination of Barley, with Restricted Moisture. 

 By T. Cuthbert Day. 



I propose to deal in this paper with a subject which is 

 of some interest to brewers and distillers, namely, the 

 influence of moisture during the germinative period of 

 barley. That moisture, irrespective of changes in tempera- 



