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induce all Fellows of this Society to do what they can to 

 furnish specimens of medicinal plants to our Garden, for it 

 is impossible at present to say how much of our future 

 supply of vegetable drugs will have to be obtained from 

 cultivated plants. 



Now that the cultivation of the Ipecacuan plant has 

 become such a success in India, there is a tendency in cer- 

 tain quarters to withhold from Edinburgh the honour which 

 undoubtedly belongs to it. It was from the Eoyal Botanic 

 Garden here that the knowledge went forth in regard to the 

 cultivation of this plant, and from the Garden also were 

 sent the first plants to India, and which are still growing in 

 India, and have been multiplied so much by the simple 

 means first devised by Mr Lindsay. 



You thus perceive that the Society, from its origin, had 

 its attention turned to the whole range of botanical science, 

 and that it adopted the proper means to carry out its noble 

 aims. Let us keep before us the same great objects, and in 

 our several spheres imitate the founders of this Society, and 

 then assuredly that success will be ours which was so charac- 

 teristic of the Society during the first years of its existence. 



The Society during the past year lost by death one Foreign 

 Honorary Fellow, Professor August Wilhelm Eichler, Berlin ; 

 three Eesident Fellows — Dr J. S. Crichton, Arbroath ; Eobert 

 Gray ; Peterwald Pattison, Trinity ; and four Non-Eesident 

 Fellows— Sir Walter Elliot of Wolfelee ; Dr W. Traill of 

 Wood wick; Dr Andrew Howden Balfour, Portobello; Thomas 

 Moore, Chelsea. 



It will thus be seen that the Society has lost several 

 very distinguished members during the past year, Obituary 

 Notices of most of whom have already been presented to the 

 Society; and at last meeting Dr Cleghorn presented an 

 Obituary Notice of a former President of this Society, Sir 

 Walter Elliot. 



During the year there were added eight new Eesident 

 Fellows, one Non-Eesident Fellow, and two Lady- Associates ; 

 in all, 11 new members. 



The Society now numbers — 32 Honorary Fellows, 138 

 Eesident Fellows, 169 Non-Eesident Fellows, 68 Foreign 

 Members, 10 Lady-Associates, and 30 Associates ;— in all, 

 447 members. 



