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V. On the Progress of Open- Air Vegetation at the Royal Botanic 

 Garden. By Mr John Sadler, Curator. 



MISCELLANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS. 



1. Mr Sadler intimated receipt, at the Royal Botanic Garden, of 

 a collection of ninety packets of seeds from Tibet, from Mr Elwes, 

 Cirencester, Gloucester ; and also of a collection of seeds from the 

 Botanic Garden at Saharunpur, collected mainly from altitudes in 

 the Himalaya of between 10,000 and 15,000 feet. 



2, Mr Sadler also mentioned, as additions to the Garden, the 

 erection of a new house for growing cool plants ; and the formation 

 of a marsh or bog garden. The Arboretum was making satisfactory 

 progress. 



Thursday, 9th Febniary 1882. — Emeritus Professor Balfour 

 in the Chair. 



The following Candidates were balloted for and duly elected 

 as Eesident Fellows : — 



Eev. John M'Mxjrtrie, M.A., 14 Inverleith Row, 

 Francis M. Cairo, M.B., 8 Torphichen Street. 

 Henry Beveridge, Esq., Hillside Villa, CorstorpMne. 



The following Communications were read : — 



I. Notice of the late Sir Eobert Christison, Bart. By the 

 Chairman. 



II. Notice of the late Professor George S. Blackie, M.D. By 

 John Sibbald, M.D. 



III. Dysoxylon Schiffneri., (Section Cleisocalyx) , a neia 

 Tree from East Australia. By Baron Ferd. von 

 Mueller, Ph.D., M.D., F.R.S., K.C.M.G. 



IV. On Tillering. By Mr A. Stephen Wilson, North 

 Kinmundy, Aberdeenshire. Illustrated by Photo- 

 graphs. 



V. On the Phenology of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire 

 in 1790. By Mr Henry Buchan, S.S.C. 



In a letter to the Assistant Secretary, Mr Buchan quoted from 



