BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH XXlll 



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

 Sum in Current Account with 



Union Bank of Scotland, Ltd. . 117 5 



Sum in Deposit Receipt with do. 100 



Less — Account unpaid . £20 17 G 

 Subscriptions re- 

 ceived in advance 1 15 



£206 



22 12 6 



As above . £183 14 11 



Note. — Subscriptions in arrear, considered recoverable; 1919-20, 15s.; 

 1920-21, £3, 15s, 



EniNBURQH, 7th December 1921. — I hereby certify tliat I have audited the Accounts of 

 the Treasurer of the Botanical Society of Kdinburgh for Session 1920-19-21, and have found 

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



ROBT. C. MILLAR, C.A., Anditor. 



Mr. Charles S. S. Johnston and Mr. R. Glode Guyer 

 were elected Resident Fellows. 



Dr. W. Burns was elected a non-Resident Fellow. 



Dr. W. Burns read a paper on the Ecology of Western 

 India, treating mainly of the desert flora and especially 

 with the presence of salt and its effect on vegetation, with 

 sand and sand-binders, with the vegetation in canals and 

 the conditions favouring it, and also with the population 

 of desert areas. The paper was illustrated by a series of 

 lantern slides. 



Dr. W. Balfour Gourlay exhibited some specimens 

 from a volcano in Java and from the Grand Canyon in 



California. 



JANUARY 19, 1922. 

 W. G. Smith, B.Sc, Ph.D., President, in the Chair. 



Rev. J. R. S. Wilson and Miss Helen I. Allan Gray 

 were elected Resident Fellows. 



Mr. W. W. Smith and Professor James Small com- 

 municated the description of a new Genus of Gompositae, 

 Formania (see p. 91), and exhibited a specimen of 

 Formania meJwngensis, the type of the genus. 



