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the sites and plans of cities and also to the very elaborately finished 

 map at the end of the second volume. We heartily wish the work 

 may meet with a speedy sale and that the views in future editions may 

 be produced in any other garb than the doleful one in which they now 

 appear. We see the style has been patented : we sincerely hope that 

 no pirate will even infringe on the rights of the patentee. 



K. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



November 30, 1846. — Tenth Anniversary Meeting; J. E. Gray, 

 pjsq., F.R.S., &c., President, in the chair. 



The Secelary read the Annual Report of the Council from which it 

 appeared that 27 new members had been elected since the last anni- 

 versary, and that the Society now consisted of 201 members. Many 

 thousands of specimens of British and Foreign plants had been re- 

 ceived, and much exertion had been used by the Herbarium Committee 

 to obtain the rarer British plants, which had been attended with suc- 

 cess, valuable and interesting specimens (including many duplicates) 

 having been received, and which would shortly be distributed to the 

 members. The Report was unanimously adopted. A Ballot then 

 took place for the Council for the ensuing year, when the President 

 was re-elected, and he nominated John Miers, Esq., F.R.S., and Ed- 

 ward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Vice-Presidents. Mr. J. Woollett, Mr. 

 G. Cooper and Mr. James Rich, were elected new members of the 

 Council in the room of Dr. Bossey, Mr. J. G. Children, and Dr. 

 Palmer. Mr. J. Reynolds and Mr. G. E. Dennes were re-elected 

 Treasurer and Secetary. 



Portraits of the President and Hewett Watson, Esq., F.L.S., 

 (painted by Mrs. Carpenter), subscribed for by the members, were 

 presented. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 



December 10, 1846. — Professor Balfour, President, in the chair. 



The following donations were announced, viz. Scottish Alpine 

 plants from Dr. Balfour; Cryptogamic plants, chiefly Fungi, from M. 

 Kretschmar, Sonnevvalde, — this collection contained about 2500 

 specimens most beautifully preserved ; German plants from Major de 



