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of the members to obtain rare and interesting plants had been at- 

 tended with the greatest success. The Report was unanimously 

 adopted, after which a ballot took place for the Council for the en- 

 suing year, when the chairman was re-elected President, and he 

 nominated John Miers, Esq., F.R.S., and Edward Doubleday, Esq., 

 F.L.S., Vice-presidents. A. H. Hassall, Esq., F.L.S., P. B. Ayres, 

 M.D. and Edward Palmer, M.D., were elected new members of the 

 Council in the room of J. F. Young, M.D., T. Sansom, Esq., A. L. S. 

 and S. P. Woodward, Esq., A.L.S. Mr. J. Reynolds, and Mr. G. 

 E. Dennes were respectively re-elected Treasurer and Secretary, and 

 Mr. J. G. Mitchell, M.E.S. was elected Librarian. 



January 2, 1846, — F, Barham, Esq., in the chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced from Mr. H. C. Watson, 

 Dr. Martius, Dr. Kirschleger and Mr. A Gerard. 



British plants had been received from Mr. H. C. Watson, Dr. Bos- 

 sey. Dr. Bromfield, the Rev. H. L. Jenner, Mr. W. D. Biden, Mr. 

 J. Ray, Mr. F. Barham, Mr. W. L. Notcutt, Mr. E. Lees, Mr. H. O. 

 Stephens, Mr. G. H. K. Thwaites, Mr. W. Andrews, Mr. S. P. Wood- 

 ward, Mr. Moore, Mr. J. D. Salmon, Mr. Freeman, Mr. G. Fitl, Dr. 

 Harris, Mr. J. Storey, Mr. J. Tatham, Mr. Hawkins, Miss Beever and 

 the Secretary. Foreign plants had been received from Dr. Kirschle- 

 ger and Mr. T. Twining. 



Read, " Further Observations on the Potato-murrain," by H. O. 

 Stephens, Esq. (see Phytol. ii. 414). The paper was accompanied by 

 some beautiful drawings. 



Further observations on the Potato- Murrain.* By Henry Oxley 



Stephens, Esq. 



In a paper on the potato-murrain read at a meeting of the Society, 

 October 3rd, and published in the November * Phytologist ' (Phytol. 

 ii. 330), I expressed an opinion that the Fungi found in the diseased 

 tubers were to be considered rather as accidental accompaniments 

 than the proximate cause of the disease, and that I considered it im- 

 possible that the Arlotrogus could be the cause of their decomposi- 

 tion because that Fungus was not invariably present, and that up to 

 the period at which that communication was written, I had not suc- 

 ceeded in detecting it. Subsequent observations have convinced me 



*Eead before the Botanical Society of London, 2nd January, 1846. 



