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past. He attributed tbe extraordinary plant appearances just alluded 

 to by j\[r Sadler to the present spring-like weatber following after 

 wbat was really a sbort winter, wbicb bad again been preceded by 

 one of tbe mildest autumns on record. 



Mr Jobnstone, of Inverleitb jS'urseries, called attention to a 

 snowstorm at Caterbam in Surrey on October 21, wbicb bad done 

 immense damage to oaks and otber trees. 



MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS. 



1. 'Mv Jobn Campbell, Ledaig, near Oban, sent flowers in bloom 

 from bis garden. 



2. Mr Jobnstone bad lately seen, near Tigbnabruacb, Kyles of Bute, 

 a fine Eucalyptus, planted fourteen years ago, virtually in tbe open. 



3. Mr Metbven exhibited from bis bothouses wbat Professor Traill, 

 of Aberdeen, wbo was present, pronounced Momordicas Charantla, 

 be baving seen it growing as a bedge creeper round tbe villages in 

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4. Mr I^. Fraser presented to tbe University berbarium two fine 

 sj)ecimens of Dichsonia, nov. sp., from Aneitum, K'ew Hebrides. 



Thursday, loth January 1881. — Professor Baylp:y 

 Balfoue, President, in the Chair. 



Thomas B. Sprague, C.A., F.E.S.E., was appointed Auditor, 

 and David Christison, M.D., Artist, for 1880-81. 



The following Candidates were elected Kesident Fellows : — 



Patrick Geddf.s, Assistant to tlie Professor of Botany. 



John M. Macfarlane, B.Sc, Lecturer on Botany. 



Angus Alexander M'Leod, Superintendent of Public Parks and 



Gardens of EdinburgL, 14 Royal Exchange Scjuare. 

 JouN White, 34 Manor Place. 

 John C. Pottage, 7 Coates Place. 

 James M. Anderson, S.S.C, 1 Blackford Poad. 

 James Galloway, St Fillans, Trinity. 

 James Alexandek, jun. , 1 Waterloo Place. 



The President, on taking tbe cbair for the first time, thanked the 

 wSociety for the honour it bad conferred upon bim, and refeiTed to 

 the loss tbe Society had sustained in the death, since its last 



