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Botanical Society of London. 



Nov. Gth, 1846. — J. E. Gray, Esq,F.R.S., &c., President, in the 

 Chair. 



The following donations were announced : 50 specimens of Caruus 

 setosus and some specimens of Luzula nivea, presented by Dr. Dewar, 

 50 specimens of Galium Valllantii, presented by Mr. G. S. Gibson, 

 90 specimens of Sisyrmcldum anceps, presented by Mr. J. Lynam, 

 60 specimens of Glyceria plicata, presented by Mr. T. Moore. Up- 

 wards of 300 specimens of Spartina alterniflora collected at Itchen 

 Ferry, Southampton, in September last, by Mr. Hewett Watson and 

 Mr. G. E. Dennes. The Reverend A. Bloxam presented a copy of 

 his Fasciculus of British Huhi. Some thousands of specimens of 

 Azoric plants had been received from T. C. Hunt, Esq., Her Majesty's 

 Consul at St. Michael's. This was in continuation of Mr. H.'s former 

 series of specimens sent to the Society. A large parcel of Pyrenean 

 specimens had also been received from Dr. Southby. 



British plants had been received from Mr. H. Taylor, Mr. A. J. 

 Hambrough, Mr. F. Barham, Mr. J. Ansell, Mr. B. Eddison, Mr. T. 

 Ingall and Mr. J. H. Wilson. 



Donations to the Library were announced from Mr. Hewett Watson, 

 Dr. Beck, and Mr. W. Pamplin. 



The following papers were read. 



"On Hieracium maculatum (Smith), by Mr. James Bladon (Phy- 

 tol. ii. 683). 



"On the Potato disease, by Mr. Moberly.— G^. E. D. 



The System of Nature, as displayed in the Vegetable Kingdom. 

 By Edward Newman. 



When a man feels convinced that he has published new and im- 

 portant truths, he cannot reasonably be required to keep silence 

 respecting them ; it does not argue a lack of modesty that he should 

 desire to see those truths known and appreciated. I do not at all parti- 

 cipate in the feelings of authors, who profess to write for another 

 and a wiser generation : I wish those whom I know by reputation or 

 by familiar intercourse, or with whom I am united in the bond of brother- 

 hood and good feeling, or who, like myself, love truth for its own great 

 and glorious sake, T wish these to enter on the inquiry, to examine 



