BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH XXXIX 



DECEMBER 10, 1914. 

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



Mr. R. C. Davie gave an account of a botanical tour in 

 Brazil, in the neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, and illus- 

 trated the description with numerous lantern slid- 



Dr. R. S. MacDougall gave a note on the Giant Wood 

 Was] ngas. Linn., as a feeder on chocolate 



British Armerias from the Herbarium of the Royal 

 Botanic Garden were exhibited illustrating a possible new 

 species. A. scotica, C. Reid. MSS. 



An anomalous Thymelineous plant from China allied to 

 Wikstroemda was also shown from the Herbarium of the 

 Royal Botanic Garden. 



Mr. W W. Smith exhibited a new specie^ of Alangium 

 (A. kinabaluense) from Mt. Kinabalu. Borneo. 



JANUARY 14, 1915. 

 K. Stewart MacDougall, M.A.. D.Se , in the Chair. 



Mr. Allan Arnold Pinkerton was elected a Resident 

 Fellow. 



Dr. W. G. Smith exhibited papier-mache models illus- 

 trating the distribution of peat, heather, and other plants 

 in the south of Scotland. 



Dr. Malcolm Wilson demonstrated a method of in- 

 specting micro-organisms by means of which the real shape 

 i^ shown more effectively than by the usual methods. 



Dr. R. S. Mac] K)UGALX exhibited an imported w< >od-block 

 with an alien beetle. 



A paper on Hydrilla verticfflata, Caspary, in Great 

 Britain, was read on behalf of Mr. Arthur Bennett 

 (see p. 422). 



