532 TRANSACTIONS AND PKOCEEDINGS OF THE [Sess. lx. 



MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, 



Thursday, March 12, 1896. 

 Dr. AiTKEX, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Symington Grieve exhibited specimens of Picea 

 excelsa with galls of Cherraes Ahietinis, and Mr. Stewart 

 MacDougall sketched the life-history of the insect, and 

 exhibited it in other stages of its life. 



Professor Bayley Balfour exhibited Primula officinalis 

 with trimerous flowers. 



From the Pioyal Botanic Garden the following plants in 

 flower were exhibited : — Odontoglossuiii dicranophorum, 

 Lcelia glauca, Vanda. parvijlora, Oncidium pules, Dead- 

 robium inonilifornie, D. Cassiop)e, Colax jugosus. 



The following papers were read : — 



Eecent Destruction of Spruce and Pine Forests by 

 LiPARis Monacha and Fidonia Piniaria. Illustrated by a 

 Series of Lantern Slides. By E. Stewart MacDougall, 

 B.Sc. 



Notes from the PiOyal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 



Issued November 1896. 



