BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH XXIX 



Mr. Sydney Latimer was elected a Resident Fellow. 



Mr. Harry Sanderson gave an account of a visit to the 

 Prenj Planina in Herzegovina, with some notes on the 

 vegetation of the district. 



Col. H. H. Johnston, C.B., read two papers : " Additions 

 to the Flora of Orkney," as recorded in Watson's Topo- 

 graphical Botany. 2nd edition (see p. 207). and "Notes on 

 some Rare or Interesting Orkney Plants," which he 

 illustrated with photographs and dried specimens (see 

 p. 217). 



Mr. W. W. Smith gave a note on Rhododendron cyano- 

 carpum, Franch. (see p. 274-). 



FEBRUARY 12, 1914. 



R, Stewart MacDougall, M.A., D.Sc, in the Chair. 



Mr. Donald Macpherson, Mr. Alexander Macpherson. 

 and Dr. John Macwatt were elected Resident Fellows. 



Mr. MoKTAGU Drummond gave an account of a summer 

 vacation in Jamaica, with lantern illustrations, with special 

 reference to the Botanic Gardens at Hope, near Kingston, 

 at Castleton, twenty miles inland, and at Cinchona in the 

 Blue Mountains at an altitude of 5000 ft. He pointed out 

 the special advantages of Cinchona as a tropical station 

 for research, and drew attention to the project which is on 

 foot to make that station more fully available to British 

 students. 



Miss Lamont read a paper on the Ecology of the Estate 

 of Knockdow, with lantern illustrations (see p. 248). 



Dr. R. S. MacDougall exhibited the Citrus White Fly 

 (Aleyrodes c-itri) parasitised by the Red Fungus (Ascher- 

 sonia abyrodis) and the Black Fungus (Aegerita Webberi). 



Mr. \Yhytock showed a collection of flowers gathered 

 that morning from shrubs growing in the open at Dalkeith 

 Palace Gardens, including species of Hamamelis and 

 ChimonantJtas fragrans, Lindl. 



