TRANSACTIONS 



"♦ OF THE 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY 



SESSION LIII. 



Wi Novemher 1888. — William Craig, M.D., RRS.K, 

 r.E.C.S.E., President, in the Chair. 



The President made the following introductory remarks : — 



Gentlemen, — My first duty to-night is to return you my 

 sincere thanks for the high honour you have conferred upon 

 me by electing me a second time to be your President. I 

 can assure you I esteem the honour very highly. Whilst 

 conscious of many imperfections and shortcomings on my 

 part, I shall endeavour to discharge the duties of the office 

 to the best of my ability, relying on your kind indulgence 

 for the future, as I have experienced it in the past. 



The last Session will long be remembered as one in which 

 the Society lost by death many of its most distinguished 

 members. I question if, during the previous fifty-one years 

 of its existence, it ever happened that the names of so many 

 distinguished Fellows had to be removed from the roll of 

 membership in one year. Of the six Honorary Fellows who 

 are British subjects, we lost one, namely, Dr J. T. Bos well of 

 Balmuto — long known and possibly better known to some 

 as Dr J. T. Bos well- Sy me. Dr Bos well was one of the 

 most distinguished botanists of the present century, and 

 his great work on the British Flora will perpetuate his 

 name to generations yet unborn. Dr Boswell was elected 

 an Honorary Fellow of this Society 10th December 1885, to 



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