of Edinburgh, Session 1879-80. iii 



Nova Scotia — Georoe Lawson, LL.D., Dalhousie. 



Ottawa, Ontario — AY. R. Riddell, B.Sc, B.A., Prov. Normal School. 



Perth— Y. B. White, M.D., F.L.S. 



SahariC7ipore, India— J. F. Duthie, B.A., F.L.S. , Botanic Garden. 



Shrewsbury — Rev. W. A. Leighton, B.A., F.L.S. 



SilJoth — JoHX Leitch, M.B., CM. 



Wellington, New Zealand — James Hectok, JLD., F.R.S.L. and E. 



Wolverhampton — John Fkaser, ]\I.A., M.D. 



Zanzibar — John Kirk, M.D.. F. F. S 



The following Candidates were elected Eesident Fel- 

 lows : — 



George Bird, 12 Warrender Park Terrace. 

 William Marjoribanks, 9 Learmouth Terrace. 



The thanks of the Society to Mr Sadler were ordered to be 

 recorded in the mmutes for the zeal and assiduity which he had 

 displayed during his twenty-one years' term of office as assistant- 

 secretary, wliich he had that evening demitted. The hound 

 minute books of the Society for that period were laid on the table. 



Mr Gorrie, the new President, on taking the Chair, briefly 

 thanked the Society for the honour thus unexpectedly conferred 

 upon him. 



The following Communications were read : — 



I. On the Septa across the Ducts m Bougainvillea glabra 



and Testudinaria elephantipes. By Professor Alex. 

 Dickson. 



II. On the G-roivth of the New Zealand Flax Plant (Phormium 



teuax) m Orhiey Islands. By Dr William Traill, 



III. Notes on the Rhea Fibre Trials at Sahai'unpore. By 

 Mr William Bell, in a Letter to Dr Balfour, 

 Emeritus Professor of Botany. 



IV. Notes of Neio Zealand Plants cultivated at Rait Lodge, 



near Trinity, ivhich ivithstood the Severe Winter of 

 1878-79. (Part I.) By Mr William Gorrie, 

 President. 



V. Report for Novemher on Open- Air Vegetation at the 



Royal Botanic Garden. By Mr John Sadler, 

 Curator. 



