BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH IX 



Being: — Sum in Curreut Account with 



Union Bank of Scotland Ltd. . £19 2 



Sum in Dejoosit Eeceipt with do. 150 



Due bv Treasurei' . . . 6 1 



£175 2 1 



Less Printing Accounts out- 

 standing ... 20 



As above . . £154 14 7 



Note. — Subscriptions in arrear, considered recoverable : 1914-15, £2, 5s, ; 

 1915-16, £3. 



Edinburgh, •29th November 191G.— I hereby certify that I have audited the Accounts of 

 the Treasurer of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh for Session 1915-1916, and have found 

 them correct. I have also checked the foregoing Abstract, and find it correct. 



ROBT. C. MILLAR, C.A., Auditor. 



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Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, Bart., was elected a non- 

 Resident Fellow. 



Mr. George Forrest gav'^e an address on the Flora of 

 Yunnan, with lantern illustrations. The lecturer dealt witli 

 the physical features of the country, with its varied and 

 extensive flora, and with the types of hillmen who inhabit 

 the x\.lpine areas of the province. Many fine examples of 

 Primula and Rhododendron were shown in their native 

 habitats. 



FEBRUARY 8, 1917, 



Symington Grieve, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Charles Eley was elected a noi;j-Resident Fellow^ 



The death of Mr. Daniel Oliver, an Honorary British 

 Fellow, was intimated ; also the death of Dr. James 

 Stirton, a Fellow of the Society. 



Professor Bayley Balfour communicated a paper on 

 Rhododendrons of. the Irroratum Section (see p. 157). 



A paper was communicated on behalf of Mr. R, Lloyd 

 Praeger, on Sedum Praegerianum, W. W. Sm., with a 

 tentative classification of the section Rhodiola (see p. 107). 



Mr. Arthur Bennett recorded the occurrence of 

 Ceratophylluni demersum, Linn., in the Orkney Isles (see 

 p. 134), and Ulex nanus, Forst., in Caithness (see p. 135). 



