XXXiv BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 



Mr. J. Rutherford Hill exhibited a piece of Carnauba 

 Wax which had been found floating in tlie sea on the Ayrshire 

 Coast. 



The following species of Primula in flower were shown from 

 the Royal Botanic Garden : — P. conspersa, Balf . f . et Purdom ; 

 P. deflexa, Duthie ; P. fasciculata, Balf. t. et Ward ; P. 

 Forrestii, Balf. f . ; P. Giraldiana, Pax. ; P. involucrata, Wall. ; 

 P. Maclareni, Balf. f. ; P. Marven {marginataxvenusta) ; 

 P. Menziesiana, Balf. f. et W. W. Sra. ; P. redolens, Balf. f. 

 et Ward ; P. rupicola, Balf. f . et Forrest ; P. saxatilis, Kom. ; 

 P. Sieboldii, E. Morren ; P. sino-Listeri, Balf. f . ; and P. 

 Werringtonensis, Hort. Wallace. 



MAY 17, 1923. 



Professor W. Wright Smith, M.A., F.L.S., F.R.S.E., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. R. A. Taylor was elected a non-Resident Fellow. 



Dr. R. J. D. Graham and Mr. L. B. Stewart communicated 

 a paper on the Vegetative Propagation of Haemanthus hirsutus, 

 Baker (see p. 183). 



Mr. M. Y. Orr exhibited specimens of abnormal flowers of 

 Wallflower. 



JUNE 21, 1923. 



Professor W. Wright Smith, M.A., F.L.S., F.R.S.E., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Dr. G. C. Druce, Dr. R. Lloyd Praeger, and Dr. A. B, 

 Rendle were elected Hon. British Fellows. 



Professor D. H. Campbell, Professor R. Chodat, Professor 

 J. M. Coulter, Professor Seittsiro Ikeno, Professor Henri 

 Lecomte, Dr. J. P. Lotsy, Professor Jean Massart, 

 Dr. D. T. MacDougall, Dr. C. H. Ostenfeld, Professor 

 W. J. V. Osterhout, Professor Roland Thaxter, Professor 

 J. F. N. WiLLE, and Mr. E. H. Wilson were elected Hon. 

 Foreign Fellows. 



Miss Elsik Cadman exhibited specimens, microscopic slides, 

 and photographs, showing various stages in the life-history 

 of Reticuhria Lycoperdon, Bull., and gave some account of 

 its life-historv. 



