rROCEEDIXGS OF THE 



LOCAL SECRETARIES. 



.4 6e)-dmi— Professor J. W. H. Trail, M.A., M.D., F.E.S., F.L.S. 



Bathgate — Robert Kirk, M.D., F.R.C.S.E. 



Bericich-on-Tweed — Francis M. Norman, R.ISr. 



Birmingham — W. H. Wilkinson, F.L.S., F.R.M.S., Manor Hill, Sutton 



Coldfield. 

 t'aZcM««— Professor S. C. Mahalanobis, B.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.R.M.S., 



Presidency College. 

 Cambridge — Arthur Evans, M.A. 

 Croydon — A. Bennett, A.L.S. 

 Dundee — Professor P. Geddes, F.R.S.E. 



East Liss, Hants— James Sykes Gamble, M.A., CLE., F.R.S. 

 GZas^ow;— Professor F. 0. Bower, Sc.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. 

 London — William Carruthers, F.R.S. , F.L.S. 

 J. F. Duthie, B.A., F.L.S. 

 E. M. Holmes, F.L.S., F.R.H.S. 

 „ Lieut.-Col. Sir David Prain, M.D., CLE., F.R.S., F.L.S., 



Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 

 Melrose — W. B. Boyd, of Faldonside. 



PhiladeljjhiUj U.S.A. — Professor John M. Macfarlane, D.Sc, F.R.S.E. 

 St Andreivs—Pvofemov M'Intosh, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S.E. 

 „ Robert A. Robertson, M.A., B.Sc. 



J. H. Wilson, D.Sc, F.R.S.E. 

 Toronto, Ontario — Tlie Hon. W. R. Riddell, B.Sc, B.A. 

 „ Professor Ramsay Wright, M.A., B.Sc. 



Vancouver — M'Taggart Cowan, Esfj. 



Miss S. J. WiLKiE read a paper on Periodicity in 

 Transpiration (see p. 59). 



Miss WiLKiE also communicated a note on the Influence 

 of Diflerent Media on the Histology of Roots (see p. 76). 



A note on the Histology of Gymnosperm Cuttings was 

 read on behalf of Miss F. B. Scott. (To a'ppear in next issue.) 



Dr. K. S. MacDouoall showed three specimens of a very 

 large beetle from Sierra Leone, with a piece of stem of 

 the cashew-nut gii-dled by the beetle. This beetle fells 

 young Evj-( tlij I )t I . 



Dr. MacDougall recorded, on l:)ehalf of Mr. J. Lyford 

 Pike, the occurrence of the giant wood- wasp (Sirex gigas, 

 Linn.) in Douglas Fir logs and in Japanese Larch. This is 

 a new enemy of Douglas Fir. 



Dr.MAcDouoALL also exhibited Mcgasliginns drohilobiiis, 

 Ratz., an encmv of Silver Fir seed. Tlie insect was bred 



