iv Contents. 



SESSIOIvT XLVl. 



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Cllmirrnan's Introiluctory Remarks :— On the Results of Meteorolo;,ncal Obser- 



v.'itions on the Weather of tlie last Suiniiier. By Alexander Buchan, 



M.A., Vice-Pres 26:3 



01)ituary Notice of Sir Robert Christison, Bart. By John Hutton Balfour, 



M.D., Hon. Sec •. 266 



Obituary Notice of Sir C. Wyville Thomson. By John Hutton Balfour, 



M.D., Hon. Sec 278 



Obituary Notice of Professor George Stoddart Blackie, M.D. By John 



SiBBALD, M.D., F.R.S.E 282 



Obituarv Notice of Charles Robert Darwin. By John Hutton Balfour, 



M.i)., Hon. Sec 284 



Obituary Notice of Deputy-Surgeon General W. Jameson, CLE. By Hugh 



Cleghorn, M.D., F.L.S 288 



Obituary Notice of Joseph Decaisne, Member of the Institute of France, 



Honorary Fellow. By Andrew Taylor 29.o 



Obituary Notices of Deceased Fellows for past Session 297 



Address by the President on Chlorophyll 303 



On Tillering. By A. Stephen Wilson, North Kinmundy, Aberdeenshire.... 3ii0 

 On Fixing Blowing Sands by means of Planted Grasses. By James Coutts 



Crawford, F.G.S 351 



On Lichens (1) from Newtoundland, collected by Mr A. Gray, with a List of 



the Species ; (2) from New Zealand ; (3) from the South of Scotland. 



By James Stirton, M.D., F.L.S 355 



On the Germination of Streptocarpv^ caulescens. By Professor DiCKSON. 



(Plate XIV.) 362 



On the ^Estivation of the Floral Envelopes in Helianthemum vulgare. By 



Professor Dickson 364 



On a Monstrosity in the Flower of Iris Pseudacorus. By Professor Dickson. 364 

 Report on the Vegetation in the Garden of tlie Royal Botanic Institution, 



Glasgow, from January till November 1882. By Robert Bullen, 



Curator. Communicated by the President 365 



On Dijsoxylon Schiffneri (Section Cleisocalyx), a new Tree from East Australia. 



By Baron Fe'rd. von Mueller, Ph.D., M.D., F.R.S., K.C.M.G 369 



Report on Temperatures and Open-Air Vegetation at the Royal Botanic 



Garden, E<lmlmrgh, from November 1881 till July 1882. Compiled 



from Notes read at Meetings of the Society. By the late John Sadler, 



C urator 371 



Note on Table of Flowering of Plants in the Royal Botanic Garden, Edin- 

 burgh, from 1850 to 1882. By the late John Sadler, Curator 374 



Notes ou Memorial Trees Planted in the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 



By the late John Sadler, Curator 375 



Extracts from Correspondence as to the Effects of the Winter of 1881-82 in 



different parts of Scotland 378 



Session 1879-80. Proceedings of the Botanical Society 



„ Additions to the Library, Herbarium, and Museum during 



the Session xxvi 



,, Laws of the Society xxxiii 



Session 1880-81. Proceedings. (Plate IV.) xli 



,, Additions to the Library, Herbarium, and Museum during 



the Session Lxxxiii 



,, List of Members xciii 



Session 1881-82. Proceedings. (Plates XIL and XIII.) ci 



, , Additions to the Library, Herbarium, and Museum during 



the Session cxx 



,, List of Members cxxvii 



Index exxxv 



