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The Committee was appointed at the meeting of the 

 Society held 1.3th November 1884. 



At a meeting of the Council, held 2nd December 1884, 

 " Mr. Taylor made a report, as requested at last meeting 

 of the Society, as to the terms on which the Society gifted 

 their collection of books to the Government Library at the 

 Eoyal Botanic Garden. In this report the letter offering 

 the books to Government was quoted (ex Minute of Library 

 Committee, 2ord April 1872, and adopted as an instrument 

 of the Society on 30th April 1872) — this letter given in 

 full, page 11. 



" Considerable discussion followed the giving of this 

 report, especially regarding the manner, and by whom, the 

 presents of books which the Society from time to time 

 received should be acknowledged and handed over to 

 Government. LTltimately the matter was left over to a 

 subsequent meeting of Council." 



At the meeting of the Council held 2nd February 1885, 

 " The consideration of the form of acknowledgment for 

 books received by the Society was referred to a Committee 

 composed of Prof. Dickson, Mr. Taylor, and the Assistant- 

 Secretary (Dr. J. M. Macfarlane), with power to draw up a 

 suitable form for the approval of the Council." 



At a meeting of the Council of the Society, held at 5 St. 

 Andrew Square, 1st April 1890, "Prof. Balfour stated 

 that he was glad to inform the Council that a Curator ship 

 of the Herharinm and Library had leen established by 

 Government, and that the salary of £130, rising by incre- 

 ments to £200, had been voted for the purpose as an 

 annual graut." 



At a meeting of the Council, held at 5 St. Andrew 

 Square, on 30th December 1890, Mr. Lindsay, President, 

 in the chair, 



A letter was read from Prof. J. B. Balfour, suggesting 

 that the Society publish its Proceedings monthly. In that 

 letter, Prof. Balfour refers to the close relationship between 

 the Royal Botanic Garden and the Botanical Society, as 

 follows : — 



" I do not need to point out the intimate connection 

 that there has always been between the Society and the 

 Garden, and everyone would, I am sure, deprecate any step 



