PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



LOCAL SECRETARIES. 



Aberdeen— 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. 



Berioick-on-Tweed — Francis M. Norman, R.N. 



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.MS., 



Presidency College. 

 Cambridge — Arthur Evans, M.A. 

 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. 



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

 St A ndrews— Professor MTntosh, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S.E. 

 „ Robert A. Robertson, M.A., B.Sc. 



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

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



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



Vancouver — M'Taggart Cowan, Esq. 



Mr. Donald Patton and Mr. Edward J. A. Stewart 

 were elected non-Resident Fellows. 



Miss Isa Martin was elected a Resident Fellow. 



Mr. James Fraser communicated a note on the occur- 

 rence of Megastigmus pini, Parf., in the seeds of Abies 

 nobilis, Lindl. (see p. 405). 



A paper on the Saxifrages of the Diptera section was 

 read on behalf of Professor Bayley Balfour and illus- 

 trated with photographs of living plants and of the type 

 sheets. 



Mr. James Fraser gave notes on certain Scottish plants 

 which he illustrated with specimens of his own collecting 

 (see p. 404). 



On behalf of Mr. M. Y. Orr, a new species of Aeschynan- 

 thus (A. chorisepala) from China was exhibited. 



