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Petition to Goverument for aid iu defraying the salary of a Curator 

 was read and approved. Mr. Brand intends to present this when in 

 London. 



On the 12th May 1842. at the usual meeting of the Society. Mr. 

 Brand reported, on the part of the Committee of Management, as to 

 his proceedings iu Loudon with respect to obtaining an annual grant 

 for the salary of a Curator for the Society's ^fuseum. 



From the third Annual Report by the Botanical Society, on the 

 state and progress of the University Herbarium and the Botanical 

 Library connected with it, there was evidently a want of funds, and 

 an acting and salaried Assistant-Curator could not be appointed. This 

 was at the end of 18.18, but at the meeting held on 11th July 18i4 

 it was reported by the Council that they had obtained the services of 

 Mr. Evans as A.ssistant-Curator for two years, commencing on 15th May 

 1844, at a salary of £30 per annum. 



8th March 1849. — Mr. George Lawson, Edinburgh, appointed 

 Assistant- Curator ; the salary to be £85 per annum, if, after investi- 

 gation, it was found that the Society could afford that sum or more. 



There were many well-known members of the Society who held the 

 office of Curator, but in December 1862 an Honorary Curatorship was 

 begun, and the Professor of Botany appointed to the office, and the 

 post seems to have been held by the succeeding Profess'irs of Botany in 

 the University until 1901. Professor J. B. Balfour having resigned 

 in 1901, the Society appointed Mr. Wm. Caldwell Crawford, F.R.S.E., 

 their Curator. 



EULES. 



The original Rules agreed to are not entered in Minutes. 



Rules altered 14th December 1837. — " The Office-bearers of the 

 Society shall consist of a President, four Vice-Presidents, six. Councillors, 

 one British and two Foreign Secretaries, a Treasurer, and a Curator 

 who shall be elected annually by means of signed lists."' 



ROOMS FOR MEETINGS. 



The meeting of the Society 10th November 1886 Avas held in the 

 Classroom of Professor Griiham, at the College, at 7.80 p.m. Prof. 

 Graham stated that, until more suitable accommodatiim could be 

 obtained, he would make the Society welcome to the tise of his Class- 

 room. 



The Society having arranged to rent a Meeting Room at the Royal 

 Institution from the Scottish Society of Antiquarians, held their first 

 meeting there, on 8th November 1836. 



At a meeting of the Society, held 11th April 1839, the Secretary 

 stated that Dr. Traill had given the Society the use of a room in the 

 Gollege, adj.jining that in which the Herbarium is kept, to be employed 

 as a Library and Consulting Room. 



The Society met in various rooms during subsequent years, and, 

 among other places, at 6 York Place. The Society first met at 5 St. 

 Andrew Square, on loth November 1862. 



TEA AFTER MEETINGS. 



Proposed at meeting held at Royal Institution 10th January 1889. 

 At the meeting held on i4lh March 1839 it was arranged that tea 

 should be proviiled at the meeting to be held on 11th April 1839, and 

 has since been continued at the evening meetings. 



