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Proceedings of the Botanical Society 



Thursday, 11th December 1879. — Dr W. Chaig, Vice-President, 

 in the Chair, 



The following Office-Bearers for 1879-80 were elected: — 



PRESIDENT. 



William Gorrie, Rait Lodge, Trinity. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS. 



William Craig, M.D. 

 Malcolm Dunn, Pre8. Scot. Hort. 

 Assoc. 



Professor Bayley Balfour. 

 Thomas A. G. Balfour, M.D. 



COUNCILLORS. 



Alexander Buchan, A.M. 

 Charles S. France. 

 Hugh Clegiiorn, M.D. 

 C. H. Millar of Blaircastle. 

 Sir Wyville Thomson. 

 Isaac Anderson-Henry. 



Sir Robert Christison, Bart. 

 Professor Thomas R. Fraser. 

 Professor Douglas Maclagan. 

 John Sadler, Curator, Royal 

 Botanic Garden. 



Honorary Secretary, 

 Honorary Curator, 

 Foreign Secretary, 

 Treasurer, . 

 Assistant- Secretary, 



Emeritus Professor Balfour. 

 The Professor of Botany. 

 Professor Dickson. 

 Patrick Neill Fraser. 

 Andrew Taylor. 



LOCAL SECRETARIES. 



Aberdeen — George Dickie, M.A., M.D., F.L.S. 

 Berwick— Vniijiv W. Maclagan, M.D. 

 SirTOwi9'7M77i— George A. Panton, F.L.S., St Bennet's Hill. 

 Calcutta — John Anderson, M.D., F.L.S. 



„ George King, M.D., Botanic Garden. 

 Cambridge — Charles C. Babington, M.A., F.R.S., Professor of Botany. 

 Dublin— W. R. M'Nab, M.D., F.L.S., Professor of Botany, Roy. Col. 



Science. 

 Dumfries — James Gilchrist, M.D. 

 Exeter — Thomas Sh after, M.D. 



Fife— J. T. Boswell, LL.D., F.L.S., of Balniuto, Kirkcaldy. 

 Oeorgetoivn, Demerara — W. H. Campbell, LL.D. 

 Glasgow — Professor Bayley Balfour. 

 Greenock — Donald MacRaild, M.D. 

 Kilharchan — Rev. G. Alison. 



London — William Carruthers, F.R.S., F.L.S., British Museum. 

 London, Brixton — John Archibald, M.B., CM., F.R.C.S.E. 

 Manchester — Benjamin Carrington, M. D., Eccles. 

 Melbourne, Australia — Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, ]\r.D. 

 Nairn — William Alex. Stables. 

 Nashville, Tennessee — George S. Blackie, M.D. 

 Norfolk— 5 OMS Lowe, M.D., King's Lynn. 



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