ex Proceedings of the Botanical Society 



The following Candidates were elected Resident Fellows : — 



Mr A. J. RouGHEAD, Seed Merchant, Haddington. 

 Mr John A. Park, Seed Merchant, Haddington. 

 Mr Frank Pullar, 33 Queen Street, 



The following Communications were read : — 



I. The Climate of the Carpathian Mountains in its Relation 

 to the Hungarian Oak. By Mr Alexandek Buchan, 

 M.A., Vice-President, 



This inquiry had been instituted from its having been demon- 

 strated that the Quercus conferta had been able to withstand the 

 severe frosts of the south of Scotland during the two previous 

 seasons to the present one. It appears to thrive abroad in districts 

 where there is, periodically at least, 8° lower temperature than that 

 experienced in Berwickshire a year ago. The late Sir Robert 

 Christison, Bart., had been prosecuting this subject even when on 

 his death-bed. 



11. On Lichens from (1) Newfoundland.^ collected by Mr 

 A. Gray, with a List of Species ; (2) from New 

 Zealand ; (3) from the South of Scotland. By Dr 

 James Stirton. Communicated by Mr Robert Gray. 



III. Exhibition of Animals containing Chlorophyll. By 



Mr Patrick Geddes. 



IV. Botanical Notes. By Mr John Sadler. 



(a) Miss Anne J. Hope-Johnstonc of Marchbank Wood, near 

 Moffat, sent a basket of Trusses of Rhododendron 

 Nohleanum. 



(h) Mr Daniel Shiels, interested in the newsj)aper report of Mr 

 Stephen Wilson's paper on "Tillering," read at the February 

 meeting, sent to the Museum a plant of common Barley 

 grown in a garden in Duncan Street, !N"ewington, in 1880. 

 There are more than 60 stallcs and 50 spikes, averaging 

 25 grains in each head, making 1250 in all. The plant 

 was grown from a single grain under an apple tree. The 

 stalks are over 3 feet high. 



V. On Tempe7'atures at the Boyal Botanic Garden, and their 

 Effects on Vegetation. By Mr John Sadler, Curator. 



