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ground on one coast and the gain of a rood on another, are no less a 

 loss and a gain because they have taken place before our eyes. — 

 Edward Newman.] 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Friday, July 1th, 1848. — John Edward Gray, Esq., F.R.S., Presi- 

 dent, in the chair. 



The following donations were announced : — 



' Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London,' from November 

 16th, 1838, to March 7th, 1848, presented by that Society ; Vols. 1, 

 2 and 3 of ' Transactions of the Zoological Society of London,' pre- 

 sented by that Society ; ' Proceedings of the American Philosophical 

 Society,' presented by that Society ; a parcel of specimens from St. 

 Mary's, Azores, presented by Thomas Carew Hunt, Esq., Her Ma- 

 jesty's Consul at St. Michael's. Among the specimens are eight spe- 

 cies not before ascertained to grow in the Azores, but all found also 

 in south Europe. British plants had been received from W. H. 

 Purchas. Dr. Semple, F.G.S., of Torrington Square, and John 

 Moore, Esq., Surgeon, of Leicester, were elected members. 



Mr. Thomas Sansom presented a specimen of Schistostega pennata, 

 H. & T., collected by him in a cave by the side of the mountain 

 road from Capel Cerig to Llanrwst, in May last. — G. E. D. 



THE DUNDEE NATURALISTS' ASSOCIATION. 



3rd May, 1848. — Mr. Ogilvie (the Secretary), in absence of the 

 President, in the cbair. 



The ' Flora of Leicestershire ' was announced as a donation from 

 the author to the Association, and a parcel of plants was announced 

 from Mr. Ogilvie. 



Mr. Ogilvie read an interesting paper, being an account of three 

 days' botanizing on the Sidlaw hills. The more interesting plants 

 found by Mr. Ogilvie w&e the following: Andraea rupestris, Dicra- 

 num heteromallum, Diphyscium foliosura, Fontinalis antipyretica, 

 Buxbaumia aphylla, Hypnum triquetrum, Neckera crispa (barren), 

 Orthotrichum rupincola, Polytrichum nanum, Trichostomum heterosti- 

 chum, T. canescens, j3. ericoides, Arthonia Swartziana, Stereocaulon 

 condensatum, Parmelia pulverulenta, Lecanora ventosa, Baeomyces 



