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The following living plants in flower were shown from 

 the Royal Botanic Garden : — 



Cullumia setosa, R. Br. : a peculiar South African com- 

 posite. Rhododendron rnoupinense. Franch. : a very nice 

 dwarf free-flowering species suitable for the rockery and 

 producing large whitish flowers (sometimes spotted) in the 

 middle of a Scottish February. Introduced from Western 

 China by Veitch's collector, E. H. Wilson. Rhododendron 

 oleifolhvm, Franch. : also a hardy species with whitish 

 flowers tinged sometimes with lilac. Also bi'ought from 

 Western China by E. H. Wilson. 



MARCH 12, 1914. 

 W. G. Smith, Ph.D., in the Chair. 



The Chairman intimated the death since the previous 

 meeting of Arthur E. Davies, Ph.D., F.L.S., a Resident 

 Fellow and former Office Bearer. 



Dr. W. Balfour Gourlay gave some notes on the 

 trees and flowers of British Columbia and Washington, 

 illustrating his remarks by numerous lantern slides of 

 the vegetation of the Rocky and Selkirk mountains and 

 of the district round Mt. Olympus and Mt. Rainier. 



Mr. M. Y. Orr read a paper on the occurrence of 

 Pihdaria globulifera, Linn., in Glamorganshire (see 

 p. 281). 



Dr. Borthwick communicated a paper by Mr. W. S. 

 Jones on Photomicrography as applied to Timber Study 

 (see p. 235). 



The following interesting plants in flower were shown 

 from the Royal Botanic Garden : — 



Ribes Henryi, Franch. : male plants of this species in 

 good flower. Androsace Delavayi, Franch. : a pretty 

 species forming dense cushions and bearing numerous pink 

 and sweetly scented flowers just above the foliage. 

 Rltododendron Hanceanam, Hemsl. : a pale yellow- 

 flowered Chinese species which is very floriferous in the 



