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19th May 1839. — There was laid on the table a Eeport 

 by the Botanical Society on the state and progress of the 

 University Herbarium as at October 1839. 



9th November 1841. — Eead the following letter from 

 the interim Secretary of the Botanical Society, Edinburgh, 

 1st iSTovember 1841 : — 



Sir, — I beg leave to send herewith for preservation 

 to the Council a copy of the Fourth and Fifth Annual 

 Eeports for the Botanical Society, containing in Appendix, 

 at page 82, the Society's Report on the state and progress 

 of the University Herbarium, etc., under their charge. — 

 I am, etc., Wm. Brand, Interim Secretary. 



In the Eeport of the Committee presented to the 

 Botanical Society at the ordinary meeting held 14th 

 November 1839, it is mentioned that Mr. Kellerman, 

 the Assistant-Curator, " has been chiefly engaged in clean- 

 ing and arranging the various collections which belonged 

 to the College Herbarium. This arduous task has now 

 been nearly completed (a boy having been engaged to 

 assist the Curator and expedite the work). 



At the" meeting of the Society held in the Eoyal 

 Institution on 12th December 1839, a letter from 

 Dr. Neill was read, stating that the Patrons of the 

 University had agreed to fit up with gas and size-paint 

 two additional rooms for the use of the Society, and that 

 it was hoped Dr. Traill might be accommodated elsewhere. 



Dr. Graham, on resigning the Chair, congratulated the 

 Society on the very rapid progress which it had made. 



Dr. Greville, on taking the Chair, thanked the Society. 

 He alluded to the services of their late President, under 

 whose auspices the Society had made such progress, and 

 to whose exertions they owed many of their most important 

 privileges. He reminded them that the Society had, through 

 him, obtained a room for their meetings in the College, and 

 accommodation for their Herbarium ; that he had effected 

 a union with the College Herbarium, and acquired for the 

 Society a (permanenty right to the apartments and cabinets 



^ The right was not permanent, see preceding page (p. 200). 



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