484 Proceedings, Exhibitions, and 



Dublin— W. R. M'Nah, M.D., F.L.S., Professor of Botany, Royal College 



of Science. 

 Glasgow — Professor F. 0. Bower, D.Sc. 

 Kelso — Rev. David Paul, M.A., Roxburgh Manse. 

 Kilharchan — Rev. G. Alison. 

 Leicester — John Archibald, M.D. 

 London— WihijiAU Carrutiikh.s, F.R.S., F.L.S., British Museum. 



E. M. HoLME.s, F.L.S., F.R.H.S. 

 Manchester — Benjamin Carrington, M.D., Eccles. 

 Melbourne, Australia — Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, M.D. 

 Nairn — William Alex. Stables. 



Nova Scotia — Professor George Lawson, LL.D., Dalhousie. 

 Ottawa, Ontario — W. R. Riddell, B.Sc, B.A., Prov. Normal School. 

 Perth— ¥. Buchanan White, M.D., F.L.S. 

 Saharunpore, India — J. F. Duthik, B. A., F.L.S. 

 Silloth-io-R^ Leitch, M.B., CM. 

 Wellington, Ncio Zealand— ^iv James Hector, M.D., K.C.M.G., F.R.SS. 



L. & E. 

 Wolverhampton — John Eraser, M.A., M.D. 



Mr Lindsay, the newly-elected President, thanked the Society 

 for the high honour they had conferred upon him, and expressed 

 the hope that he might be able to advance the aims of the Society 

 as opportunity offered. 



Professor Bayley Balfour exhibited specimens of proliferous 

 Poppy gathered by Dr G. C. Purvis at Elie. In the axils of the 

 sepals buds had developed. 



Professor Bayley Balfour exhibited hypertrophied Pear from Mi- 

 Sam Elliot ; an abnormal Grape from Mr S. Brocklehurst, B.Sc- ; and 

 a natural graft of Prunus gathered in the Royal Botanic Garden. 



Mr Scott Elliot exhibited honey-sucking birds from South Africa 

 collected by him during his recent travels there. 



Decemhe)' 12. 



The President, on taking the chair, said : — " Before beginning 

 the public business, I regret to announce that since our last meeting 

 the Society has sustained a great loss in the sudden death of Dr 

 "W. R. M'l^ab, Professor of Botany in the Royal College of Science, 

 Dublin. Dr M'l^ab was long and intimately connected with our 

 Society, and did much good work for it. He was an earnest, 

 diligent, and enthusiastic worker in the science which he had made 

 his profession. He has been taken away in the prime of life and 

 in the midst of his usefulness. I am sure that every one present 

 will join with me in expressing our sincere sympathy with his 

 bereaved widow and family in their sorrow. 



"The Society lost by death during the past year several of its 

 most distinguished members — one Honorary Fellow, the Rev. Miles 

 Joseph Berkeley. Five Ordinary Fellows — Mr John Allan, Porto- 

 bello ; Dr T. B. Grierson, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire ; Dr Archibald 



