BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH XV 



Being :— £100 5% AVar Stock, 1929-1947 £95 o 

 Slim in Current Account with 



Union Bank of Scotland, Ltd. . 27 10 1 



Sum in Deposit Receipt witli do. 100 



Less — -Accounts unpaid £69 13 5 

 Due to Treasurer 2 10 



£222 10 1 



*2 3 5 



As above . £150 6 8 



Note. — Subscriptions in arrear, considered recoverable : 1917-18, 15s. ; 

 1918-19, £1, 10s. ; 1919-20, £3, 15s. 



EniNBUEGH, 7th Decembi'i- IDl'O.— I hereliv certify that 1 have audited the Accounts of 

 the Treasurer ni the Botaiiieal Society of Edinburgh for Session 1919-1920, and have found 

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



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



Mr. John Garriock was elected a non-Resident Fellow. 



Dr. W. G. Smith read a communication on a Vegetation 

 Survey of the Moorfoots in which he described the various 

 vegetation units of the district, using a large scale map 

 and many photographs as illustrations. The survey was 

 partly the work of the late Donald Macpherson, and had 

 been undertaken to correlate the sheep value of the various 

 hirsels with the different types of pasturage. 



Mr, Arthur Bennett communicated a paper on Pyrola 

 rotiindifolia, Linn., in Caithness, with notes on the genus 

 (see p. 71), and also a note on Vaccinium Myrtillns, 

 Linn., var. pygmaeus, Ostenfeld, f. micropJiylla, Lange 

 (see p. 75). 



Mr. H. F. Tagg exhibited some specimens of Ash twigs 

 damaged by insect attacks. 



Dr. A. W. Borthwick showed samples of German war- 

 time string made from paper. 



The following plants in flower were shown from the 

 Royal Botanic Garden : — Aheronia inyosurus, Lindl. ; 

 Angraecu ill d (dicJmm, Lindl.; Btdhophylluiii lemniscatum, 

 Parish; Bulbophyllum jxqydloswm, 3 . J. Sm.; Cirrhopetahim 

 gutttdatwm, Hook. f. ; Octomeria grandijiora, Lindl. ; 

 Porpax Meirax, King et Prantl ; Stelis alba, H, B. et K. 



