VORi. 



PROCEEDINGS 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



SESSION LXXXII 



OCTOBER 11, 1917. 



E. A. EoBERTSON, Esq., M.A., B.Sc, President, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Office-Bearers for 

 the Session : — 



PRESIDENT. 



James Whitock, Esq. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS. 



Alexander Cowan, Esq. 1 Symington Grieve, Esq. 



James Eraser, Esq, ! Dr. A. W. Borthwick, D.Sc. 



COUNCILLORS. 



Sir Archibald Buchan- 



Hepburn, Bart. 

 T. Bennet Clark, C.A. 

 R. C. Davie, M.A., D.Sc. 

 James Grieve, Esq. 

 J. Rutherford Hill, Esq. 



R. Stewart MacDougall, M.A., 



D.Sc. 

 R. A. Robertson, M.A., B.Sc. 

 W. G. Smith, Ph.D. 

 Malcolm Wilson, D.Sc, F.L.S. 



Honorary Secretary — W. W. Smith, M.A. 



Curator of Herbarium — W. Caldwell Crawford, M.A., F.R.S.E. 



Foreign Secretary — The Very Rev. Dr. D. Paul, M.A., LL.D. 



Treasurer — Richard Brown, C.A., 23 St Andrew Square. 



Assistant-Secretary — J. T. Johnstone, M.A., B.Sc. 



:4rfisi5— Professor Francis M. Caird, M.B., CM., F.R.C.S.F. 



Auditor — Robert C. Millar, C.A. 



TRANS. BOT. SOC. ED IN. VOI,. XXVH. ' 6* 



