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I.-GENERAL VIEWS AND OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. 



The attention of the Society is turned to the whole range of 

 Botanical Science, together with such parts of other branches of 

 IsTatural History as are more immediately connected with it. These 

 objects are cultivated : — 



1. By holding Meetings for the interchange of botanical informa- 

 tion, — for the reading of original papers or translations, abstracts 

 or reviews of botanical works, regarding any branch of botanical 

 knowledge, practical, physiological, geographical, and palseontolo- 

 gical, — and the application of such knowledge to Agriculture and 

 the Arts. 



2. By publishing annually Proceedings and Transactions, includ- 

 ing a List of Members and Donations. 



3. By the formation in Edinburgh of an Herbarium of Foreign 

 and British Plants, and of a Library and Museum for general con- 

 sultation and reference. 



4. By printing from time to time Catalogues of Plants, with the 

 view of facilitating the study of their geographical distribution, and 

 furthering the principle of exchangje. 



5. By making Botanical Excursions both in the neighbourhood of 

 Edinburgh and to distant parts of Britain. 



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