XViii BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 



Mr. Glode Guyek read a paper on the Cultivation of 

 Medicinal Plants in Scotland — Past and Present, in which 

 he detailed the history of the foundation of the Physic 

 Gardens in Edinburgh, by Robert Sibbald and Andrew 

 Balfour, and their development into the present Royal 

 Botanic Garden. He also described the garden commenced 

 by Duncan. Flockhart & Co. at Warriston, and many of 

 the medicinal plants grown there. The paper was illus- 

 trated by a large number of lantern slides, by a series of 

 enlarged photographs, and by a number of the herbs both 

 fresh and in the dried state. 



MAY 19, 1921. 

 T. CuTHBEKT Day, Esij., in the Chair. 



Mr. J. Montagu F. Drummond was elected a Resident 

 Fellow. 



Miss Gertrude Jardine was elected an Ordinary 

 Member. 



The Chairman announced the death of Dr. Henry 

 Barnes, a non-Resident Fellow. 



Mr. William Evans read a paper on Scottish Humble 

 Bees, in which he gave an account of the species of Bomhus 

 and Psitltyrus which occur in Scotland, and suggested as 

 an interesting study the noting of the species of bee which 

 visit introduced plants. He also exhibited specimens of 

 the various species. 



JUNE 16, 1921. 

 James Whytock, E.scj., iu the Chair. 



Mr. James Templeton read a paper on the Eft'ect of 

 late Frost on Wood of Acer, and showed sections of a tree 

 recently cut which had fractured on drying, the flaws being 

 evidently due to the exceptional frost of 1897. 



Dr. Malcolm Wilson exhibited specimens of Douglas 

 Fir on which wounds caused by Phomopsis had begun to 

 heal, the cambium having })een killed on a part only of 

 the circumference. 



