11 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



LOCAL SECRETARIES. 



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



Calcutta— Froie^aoT 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. 



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

 Glasgow— FroieHsoT 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. 

 Philadelphia, U.S.A. — Professor J. M. Macfarlane, D.Sc, F.R.S.E. 

 St. Aridreivs-Pvoie&aoT 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— The Hon. W. R. Riddell, B.Sc, B.A., LL.D. 

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



The President intimated the death since last meeting of 

 Professor William Gilson Farlow, an Honorary Foreign 

 Fellow, of Professor J. W. H. Trail, a former President of 

 the Society, and also of George Bird, a Resident Fellow 

 and former Ofhce-Bearer. 



Mr. Symington Grieve made a statement on the 

 threatened destruction of rare plants at Blackford Hill 

 by the County Road Board removing for road metal the 

 rock on which they grow. On his motion a resolution of 

 protest was carried unanimously, and a copy ordered to 

 be sent to the Town Council. 



Captain W. Balfour Gourlay communicated Notes 

 from Cannock Chase on Vacciniti7n interinediuTn, Ruthe, 

 specimens of the hybrid and parent plants being shown 

 (see vol. xxvii, p. 327). 



The Hon. W. R. Riddell communicated a paper on the 

 Pharmacopoeia of another Botanical Physician (see p. 1). 



Dr. R S. MacDougall read a paper on Perrisia laricis 

 as an enemy of Larch cones, the attacks being destructive 

 to seed. 



Dr. R. S. MacDougall exhibited Steplicmitis Rhodo- 

 dendri, a Tingid injurious to Rhododendron leaves, and 

 also Scolytus intricatus, causing damage to an oak stem. 



