BOTANICAL SOCIET\- OF EDINBURGH XXV 



Meeting of the Society, January 14, 1904. 

 Robert Lindsay, Esq., in the Chair. 



M'Taggaet CiAVan, Esq., Jim., 33 Drummond Place, 

 proposed by Mr. A. W. Borthwick, B.Sc, and seconded by 

 Mr. ^y. W. Smith, M.A., was balloted for as a Eesident 

 Fellow, and duly elected. 



Mr. William Evans read a communication on " The 

 Hepaticae of the Edinburgh District." 



Mr. A. "VT. Borthwick read Mr. T. A. Sprague's '•' Pre- 

 liminary Eeport on the Botany of Captain Dowding's 

 Colombian Expedition, 1898-1899 " (p. 425). 



^Ir. H. F. Tagg exhibited Museum preparations of Cuscuta 

 Seedlings, and Flowering Branches of Cuscuta rejlcxa. 



Meeting of the Society, February 11, 1904. 



Professor J. W. H. Traill, \[.D., F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mrs. Maxwell, Bangholm Bower, Goldenacre, recom- 

 mended by the Council as a Lady Member, was duly 

 elected. 



Mr. William Evans read a communication by himself 

 and "Mr. W. Edgar Evans on " A Contribution towards an 

 Alien Flora of the Edinburgh District," and exhibited 



specimens. 



Mr. Alexander Cowan read his " Report on the Scottish 

 Alpine Club Botanical Excursion in 1903 " (p. 448). 



]Mr. W. Caldwell Crawfoi;d exhibited specimens of 

 Potatoes grown in Soils L'nsterilised and Sterilised. 



Mr. A. D. EiCHARDSON brought forward some Twigs of 

 Fraxinus excelsior, showing abnormal Phyllotaxis. 



