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VII. The following plants in liower were exhibited from the 

 Eoyal Botanic Garden : — 



AciphyUa squarrosa 

 Delphinium nudicaule 

 Allium oreophilum 

 Orchis hircina 



„ mascula alba 

 Dianthus alpinus 

 Calceolaria Kellyana 

 Androsace rotundifolia, var. ma- 



crocalyx 

 Primula floribunda 

 Erinus alpinus 

 Edraianthus cariciaus 



Gentiana ornata 

 Silene quadridentata 

 Lewisia rediviva 

 Sarmienta repens 

 Veronica Lyallii 

 Polemonium humUe 

 Polygonum capitatum 

 Saxifraga propaginea 

 , , mutata 

 „ Guthrieana, 

 gata. 

 Goody era repens 



varie- 



Thursday, I'^th July 1882.— Professor Bayley Balfour 

 in the Chair. 



The following Candidates were elected Kesident Fellows :- 



William Sanderson, Talbot House, Ferry Eoad, 

 Alexander Shearer, Marclimont Road. 



The following Communications were read : — 



I. OMtuary Notice of Deputy Surgeon-General W. Jameson, 



CLE. By Dr Cleghorn. 



II. Exhibition of Plants from the Murree and Kashmir Hills, 



Punjab ; collected in 1851, and presented to the Univer- 

 sity Herbarium by Deputy Surgeon-General Andrew- 

 Fleming, M.D., F.R.S.E. 



The plants, Dr Fleming explained, were collected on the ranges 

 rising from the north-west of the Punjab, during the summer 

 months, and give a very good idea of the flora of the N.W. Hima- 

 laya. The collection was probably the first ever made at Murree. 

 One great peculiarity was the paucity of ferns, for in the 300 to 

 400 specimens there were only half a dozen ferns ; whereas in the 



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