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Inglis, Edinburgh ; Eev. "W. A. Leighton, Shrewsbury ; Dr 

 MacRaild, Greenock. Five Corresponding Members — Dr J. E. 

 Areschoug, Upsala ; Professor Caspary, Konigsberg ; Dr S. 0. 

 Lindberg, Helsingfors ; Dr G. Meneghini, Pisa ; Dr H. G. Reichen- 

 bach, Hamburg. 



" During the past Session there have been added to our list of 

 Members — one Honorary Fellow, fourteen Ordinary Fellows, one 

 Lady Associate, and two Corresponding Members ; in all, eighteen 

 new Members. 



"The Society now numbers 28 Honorary Fellows, 311 Ordinary 

 Fellows, 10 Lady Associates, 64 Corresponding Members, and 29 

 Associates — in all, 442 Members." 



Mr Campbell, Postmaster, Ledaig, sent for exhibition a parcel of 

 flowers, then in bloom in his garden, which showed the extreme 

 mildness and favourable situation of it. 



January 9, 1890. 



Dr J. M. Macfarlane described the structure and development 

 of the glands of Nepenthes, and illustrated his observations by a 

 microscopic demonstration. 



Mr Eobert Turnbull, B.Sc, exhibited .several line carpels of 

 Cycas revuluta bearing seeds, which had been grown by Mr Forbes 

 of Hawick. 



Mr Campbell, Ledaig, sent for exhibition flowering twigs from 

 his garden. 



Febrtiary 13. 



Professor F. 0. Bower described the formation of adventitious 

 buds on the leaf of Gnetum Gnemon. He then exhibited embryo- 

 sacs of the same plant, and a preparation he had received from Count 

 Solms Laubach of Strassburg showing the archegonium of Cycas. 



Mr Neill Eraser exhibited a fruit received from Demerara, which 

 the President recognised as that of a species of Dipladeiiia. 



The Curator exhibited from the Royal Botanic Garden flowers of 

 Brovmea coccinea, blossoms from seedlings of Helleborus nigeft' and 

 H. orientalis of varied colour, and a twin-flowered specimen of 

 LeucojiLin vermim. 



]\Ir Campbell sent for exhibition various cut flowers from his 

 garden at Ledaig. 



March 13. 



Dr Hugh F. C. Cleghorn exhibited and presented to the Society 

 the Type Specimens of Indian Grasses used by Mr W. Coldstream, 

 B.A., B.Sc, in illustration of his " Grasses of the Southern Punjab." 

 The warmest thanks of the Fellows were conveyed through Dr 

 Clediorn to the donor. 



