204 lUANSACriONS AND PllOCEEDINGS OF 'IHE [Sess. LXVI. 



relieve the members of the Wernerian Society as stipulated 

 for under this new condition. 



From the Financial Statement of the Botanical Society, 

 November 1857 to November 1858, submitted to the 

 Society 9th December 1858, it appears that the cash 

 received from the Wernerian Society amounted to ,£72, 5s., 

 and cash obtained for books and forms of that Society, 

 £5, 13s., — in all, £77, 18s. However, even with this 

 sum handed to it, the Botanical Society was in such arrears 

 with its payments that, atter paying its printing account, 

 which was due for three years, and other expenses, they 

 had only a balance of £59, 13s. 8d. to carry forward to 

 the next year. 



At a meeting of the Society, held in 5 St. Andrew 

 Square, Edinburgh, on 12th March 1863, the following 

 letter from the President, Professor Douglas Maclagan, 

 regarding the change of the Society's Herbarium and 

 Library Eooms at the College, was read : — 



28 Heriot Row, Uth March 1863. 



Dear Sir, — I regret that an unavoidable engagement 

 will prevent me from being at the meeting of the Botanical 

 Society this evening, and I have therefore to request that 

 you will bring before the Society, at private business, the 

 following statement regarding the accommodation of that 

 portion of the Herbarium whicli is at present in the 

 University. 



Since my appointment to the Chair of Medical Juris- 

 prudence there has been found the greatest difficulty in 

 providing me with the apartments necessary for the business 

 of my class. 



After much fruitless search, it was found that no otlier 

 place was available except the rooms occupied by the 

 Botanical Society. It was, at the same time, found no less 

 difficult to discover a place in the College to which the 

 Society could be transferred, and the Senatus accordingly 

 agreed to grant a sum of money to take a room somewhere 

 out of the College for the Society, but when I came to 

 make the necessary inquiries* it was found impossible to 

 get suitable rooms at a reasonable rent in a convenient 

 locality. 



