X PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



A Hist— Professor Francis M. Caird, M.B., CM., F.R.C.S.E. 

 Auditor — Robert C. Millar, C.A. 



LOCAL SECRETARIES. 



A berdeen— Professor J. W. H. Trail, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. 



Bathgate— Robert Kirk, M.D., F.R.C.S.E. 



Berwick- on-Tweed — Francis M. Xorman, R.X. 



Birmingham — W. H. Wilkinson, F.L.S., F.R.M.S., Manor Hill, Sutton 



Coldfield. 

 Calcutta— Professor S. C. Mahalanobis, B.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.R.M.S., 



Presidency College. 

 Cambridge — Arthur Evans, MA. 

 Croydon — A. Bennett, A.L.S. 

 Dundee — Professor P. Geddes, F.R.S.E. 



East Liss, Hants — James Sykes Gamble, M.A., CLE., F.R.S. 

 Glasgow— Professor F. 0. Bower, Sc.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. 

 London — William Carruthers, F.R.S., F.L.S. 

 J. F. Duthie, B.A., F.L.S. 

 E. M. Holmes, F.L.S., F.R.H.S. 



Lieut.-Col. Sir David Prain, M.D., CLE., F.R.S., F.L.S., 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 

 Melrose — W. B. Boyd, of Faldonside. 



Otago, New Zealand — Professor James Gow Black, D.Sc, University. 

 Philadelphia, U.S.A. — Professor John M. Macfarlane, D.Sc, F.R.S.E. 

 Ryde— George May Lowe, M.D., CM. 

 St Andrews— Professor M'Intosh, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S.E. 

 „ Robert A. Robertson, M.A., B.Sc. 



J. H. AVilson, D.Sc, F.R.S.E. 

 Toronto, Ontario — W. R. Riddell, B.Sc, B.A. 



„ Professor Ramsay Wright, M.A., B.Sc. 



Mr. E. Holmes Smith read a preliminary note on the 

 Occurrence of Mucilage on the Roots of Melastomaceae, and 

 exhibited photographs and specimens illustrating it. 



Mr. R. C. Davie read a note on the Structure of the Leaf 

 of some Species of Banksia (see p. 179). 



Dr. Malcolm Wilson gave a preliminary account of a 

 disease in plums caused by a Gladosporium. 



A paper on the Structure of the Embryo of Laguncidaria 

 racemosa, Gaertn., was read on behalf of Professor Bayley 

 Balfour (see p. 186). 



Mr. James Fraser showed specimens of the folio wing- 

 plants : — Barbarea rujncola, Moris, Cnicus (Picnomon) 



