Xll PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



LOCAL SECRETARIES. 



Aberdeen — Professor W. G. Crau;, M.A. 



Ca/c««fl— Professor S. C. Mahalanobis, B.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.R.IM.S., 



Presidency College. 

 Cambridge — Arthur Evans, M.A. 

 Croydon — A. Bennett, A.L.S. 



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

 Glasgow—Vrofes^iov F. 0. Bower, Sc.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. 

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



J. F. Ddthie, 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, U.Sc, F.R.S.E. 

 St. Andrews— Proiessov M'Intosh, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S.E. 



„ Robert A. Robertson, M.A., B.Sc 



Toronto, Ontario — The Hon. W. R. Riddell, B.Sc, B.A., LL.D. 



Mr. R. Angus Galloway was elected a Resident Fellow. 



The President intimated the death since last meeting of 

 John Gilbert Baker, F.R.8., an Honorary British Fellow, 

 and of Rop.ERT Kirk, M.D., a Resident Fellow. 



Dr. Malcolm Wilson read a paper on Two Diseases 

 of the Douglas Fir, in which a new fungus, Phomopsis 

 P^iCAidotsugae, was described (see p. 47), and Botryfis 

 Douglasii was recorded on the Douglas lir for the first 

 time in this country. 



Dr. Malcolm Wilson and Mr. H. F. Tacjg communicated 

 a paper on Pln/ynrv/ni (ji/rosum in Britain. 



Dr. W. G. SiMLiMi exhibited Hpccimens of a new Black- 

 currant-Gooseberry hybrid which differed from previously 

 described hybrids of similai- parentage. 



Mr. T. iJENNE'i' Clark exhibited specimens of the so- 

 called Strawberry-Raspberry (Jiuhus sorhifolius, Hort.), 

 of which other specimens were also shown by Mr. James 

 Fraser. 



Mr. .James Frasei! e.Khibited specimens of Ergot on 

 Aloj)(iciirux al'pintLii, 8m., var. rohusluii, Druce, from 

 Tweedside. Ergot on other grasses was also shown by 

 Dr. W. G. Smith. 



