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Dr. R. W. Falconer, Tenby, was appointed local secretary for Pem- 

 brokeshire, and Mr. Lange, Copenhagen, for Denmark. 



At this meeting the election of office-bearers for the ensuing year 

 took place, when the following gentlemen were unanimously chosen : 

 Rev. Dr. Fleming, President ; Drs. Greville, Balfour, Christison, 

 Neill, Vice-Presidents ; Sir William Jardine, Dr. Seller, Dr. Lowe, 

 Mr. W. M'Nab, Mr. C. Lawson, jun., Prof. Allen Thomson, Mr. J. 

 Marshall, jun., Mr. R. Holden, Mr. William Ivory, Mr. W. Wright, 

 Councillors ; Mr. Brand, Treasurer ; Professor Goodsir, Secretary ; 

 Dr. Douglas Maclagan, Foreign Secretary ; Dr. Parnell, Curator of 

 Museum, &c. ; Mr. J. M'Nab, Artist ; Mr. Evans, Assistant Secretary 

 and Curator. 



Thursday, January 13, 1848. — The Rev. Dr. Fleming, President, 

 in the chair. 



Donations to the library and museum were announced : — 1st, books 

 from the Leopoldine Academy ; M. Alphonse DeCandolle ; and Dr. 

 M'Fadyen, Jamaica. 2d, specimens of rare English plants from Dr. 

 Balfour ; Scottish Alpine plants from Mr. C. Murchison ; a large col- 

 lection of plants from the Society Islands, from Dr. Archd. Sibbald, 

 of H.M.S. Grampus, and Portuguese plants from Sir Walter C. Tre- 

 velyan. Among the latter were some marked as having been col- 

 lected in the streets of Cadiz and Lisbon, viz., Frankenia pulverulen- 

 ta, lllecebrum echinatum, and Hippia stolonifera ; — these plants are 

 remarkable for their habit of nourishing in the interstices of the 

 paving stones of much frequented thoroughfares, but growing so 

 close to the ground that they are but little injured by the feet of pas- 

 sengers. The collection also contained specimens of Statice lusitani- 

 ca from Persoon's locality. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. On the Reproduction of Cryptogamic Plants, by the late William 

 Stark Dougall, Esq., continued. Part second, mode of formation of 

 spores in Fungi, lichens, Musci, and Hepaticae. In this part of the 

 paper the author first considered the reproductive organs in the vari- 

 ous divisions of the natural order Fungi ; and pointed out the analogy 

 which they bear to Algae in many respects. Thus in the lower mem- 

 bers of the order the mode of reproduction may be compared to that 

 observed in Confervaceae, both as regards the development of spores 

 and their movement. In other cases the formation of spores at the 

 dilated ends of filaments or sterigmata, resembles in some degree what 

 takes place in Vaucheria. He regarded the filamentous paraphyses 



