BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH XIX 



Meeting of the Society, March 12, 1903. 

 Dr. William "Watson in the Chair. 



The following Candidate was balloted for as a Eesident 

 Fellow, and duly elected : — 



William Beavehley Cowie, Esq., 26 Clyde Street, 

 proposed by Mr. J. Rutherford Hill, seconded 

 by Dr. R. Stewart MacDougall. 



Professor Bayley Balfour gave a communication 

 on " Repetitive Basipetal Branching in the Leaf of Begonia 

 luxuriens, Scheidw."; with lantern demonstration. 



Dr. David Chhistison presented a communication on 

 "The Cowthorpe Oak," by Mr. John Clayton ; with exhibition 

 of photographs (p. 396). 



Mr. Alexander Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., gave his 

 communication on " Carex divisa, Hudson, as a Scottish 

 Plant"; and showed specimens of one rediscovered by 

 Mr. James Menzies in Forfarshire in 1901 (p. 309). 



Mr. T. CuTHBERT Day, F.C.S., gave a lantern demon- 

 stration on Three-Colour Photography by the Sanger- 

 Shepherd Method. 



Meeting of the Society', April 9, 1903. 

 Dr. William Watsox, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The following Candidate was proposed as a nou-Resident 

 Fellow : — 



Owen Gilmore, Esq., L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S.E., 5 Valley- 

 field Street, proposed by Dr. R. Stewart Mac- 

 Dougall, seconded by Dr. Wm. Craig. 



]\lr. AV. Caldwell Crawford, M.A., F.R.S.E., made a 

 communication on " Tuberisation in Plants." 



Mr. H. F. Tagg, F.L.S. , explained Methods of 

 Mounting Mosses as Museum Preparations, with exhibi- 

 tion of specimens. 



