of Edinburgh, Session 1879-80. xi 



storm on December 28, 1879. The tree was 109 feet high. Its 

 trunk measured 1 2 feet 5 inches in girth at 5 feet above roots. This 

 section measured 12 feet 10 inches over bark, and 12 feet 4 inches 

 round the wood. It shows 107 annual rings of wood, indicating 

 110 to 112 years for the age of the tree. 



7. A section, taken 3 feet from the roots, of Arenga saccharifera, 

 cut down in the palm-house of the Royal Botanic Garden when 

 60 feet in height. Owing to the quantity of the starchy matters 

 and other vegetable juices in the stem of this palm, such a section 

 is very difficult to make, this being the only successful one of many 

 attempted. 



Thursdmj, 8th April 1880.— Dr Wm. Ckaig, Vice- 

 President, in the Chair. 



The following Candidates were elected Eesident Fel- 

 low's : — 



Dr Andrew "Wilson, F.R.S.E., Siu-geons' Hall. 



John M'Laren, junior, Secretary, Scottish Arboricultural Society. 



James Greig, of Messrs Dickson & Sons. 



B. K. Peach, A.K.S.M., F.G.S., of Her Majesty's Geological Survey. 



The following Communications were made : — 



I. Note on the Flora of Colonsoy, and List of Plants Collected 



Jidy 1879. By Mr Symington Grieve. 



II. Note on some New Zealand Plants recently presented to 



the University Herharium, by Mr J. F. Cheeseman, 

 of the Museum, Auckland, New Zealand. By Mr 

 Taylor. 



This large collection includes beautiful typical specimens of 

 Haastia, Raoidia, and other endemic New Zealand composita^. 



III. On the SjJontaneous Introductio7i of Aristotelia (Friesia). 



By Hugh Cleghorn, M.D. 



Dr Cleghorn exhibited twigs of Aristotelia (Friesia) racemosa, 

 raised by Mr Martin, gardener at Wester Lea, Edinburgh, from a 

 seed accidentally deposited in the stem of a New Zealand Diclsonia, 



