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PROCEEDINGS 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



SESSION LXXVI. 



NOVEMBER 9, 1911. 



A. W. Borthwick, Esq., D.Sc, President, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Office-Bearers for 

 the Session : — 



PRESIDENT. 



A. W. Borthwick, D.Sc. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS. 



W. B. Boyd, Esq. 

 Sir Archibald Bdchan - Hep 

 burn, Bart. 



J. Rutherford Hill, Esq. 

 Professor J. \V. H. Trail, M.A., 

 M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. 



COUNCILLORS. 



T. Bennet Clark, O.A. 

 Alexander Cowan, Esq. 

 James Fraser, Esq. 

 Symington Grieve, Esq. 

 R. Stewart MacDougall, M.A., 

 D.Sc. 



George W. Scarth, ALA. 

 W. G. Smith, Ph.D. 

 W. W. Smith, M.A. 

 Miss J. G. Thompson. 

 James Whytock, Esq. 



Honorary Secretary— WSfciAM Craig, M.D., F.R.S.E., F.R.C.S.E. 

 Curator of Herbarium — W. Caldwell Crawford, M.A., F.H.S.E. 

 Foreign Secretary — Rev. D. Paul, M.A., LL.D. 

 Treasurer — Richard Brown, CA. 



TRAN T ~. BOT. SOC. EDIN. VOL. \XVI. (X 



