BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH XVll 



Brought forward £107 3 6 

 Ordinary Fund. 



Balance of Fund at close of Session 1916- 



1917 



Add — Increase during Session 1917 

 1918 .... 



Balance as at close of Session 



Total Funds 



Being:— £100 5;; War Stock, 1929-1947 £95 

 Sum iu Current Account with 

 Union Bank of Scotland, Ltd. . 

 Sum in Deposit Receipt with do. 



Les.s- — Net Balance on outstanding- 

 Accounts . £15 12 9 

 Due to Treasurers 5 8 2 



Note. — -Subscriptions in arrear, considered recoverable: 1915-16, 15s.; 

 1916-17, £2, 5s, ; 1917-18, £7, 15s. 



Edinburgh, ^th December 191S. — I hereby certify that 1 have audited the Accounts of 

 the Treasurers of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh for Session 1917-1918, and have found 

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



ROBT. C. MILLAR, C.A., Avditor. 



Mr. James Whytock delivered his Presidential Address, 

 giving an interesting retrospect of Sylviculture during the 

 past century, and commenting on the successful intro- 

 duction of important trees and shrubs during that period. 



Mr. Arthur Bennett communicated a paper on Pota- 

 inogeton longifolia, Gay, in England (see p. 312), and also 

 Notes on Dr. Hagstrom's Critical Researches on Pota- 

 mogeton (see p. 315). 



On behalf of Mr. George Chester, a paper was com- 

 municated on Potamogetons in the Canal at Market 

 Harboro', Leicestershire. 



Mrs. Law exhibited an early blossom of Fetasites 

 fragrans, Presl. 



Mr. Rutherford Hill exhibited an example of the 

 Ginger-Beer plant. 



