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4th July, 1848. — The President in the chair. 



A paper by Mr. Gorrie was read, entitled "The Spring of 1848 ; 

 its Climate and Vegetation ;" in which he traced clearly the progress 

 of vegetation during the bygone spring, and the effects of the season 

 upon it. These observations were prefaced by some general remarks 

 on the subject of great interest. 



Mr. Ogilvie exhibited a specimen of Trientalis europsea, showing a 

 monstrosity in the flower (See Phytol. iii. 223). He likewise men- 

 tioned having gathered Pyrola minor in Baldovan woods, with white 

 flowers. 



Mr. Wyllie exhibited a specimen of Pyrola media from the Sidlaw 

 hills, being a new station for the plant. He likewise mentioned the 

 occurrence of Dianthus deltoides at the Mains, two miles from 

 Dundee. 



Mr. Lawson presented a specimen of Statice Armeria, with the 

 flowers elevated on footstalks. He gathered the specimen on the 

 rocky coast between Arbroath and Auchmithie. 



John Ord, Esq., of Melmerby, near Ripon, and Mr. George Milne, 

 Jun., Dundee, were elected Fellows ; and Messrs. George Palmer, 

 A. Low, and James Wyllie, Dundee, were elected Associates. — G. L. 



Notice of l The Plant; a Biography. In a Series of Popular Lec- 

 tures. By M. J. Schleiden, M.D., Professor of Botany to the 

 University of Jena.' Translated by Arthur Henfrey, F.L.S., 

 &c, Lecturer on Botany at St. George's, Hospital, London, 

 Author of ' Outlines of Structural and Physiological Botany.' 

 With five coloured plates and thirteen wood-engravings. Lon- 

 don : H. Bailliere, 219, Regent Street. 1848. 



It is really refreshing to find that there still exist in Germany na- 

 turalists of no mean reputation, whose labours demand and really de- 

 serve a notice of a very different description from that elicited by the 

 ravings which, dignified by the high-sounding title of Physio-philo- 

 sophy, were recently imported from that modern cloud-land, and pub- 

 lished here under the auspices of one of our learned societies ; and it 

 is also gratifying to see that we possess an English botanist, not only 

 capable of understanding, but able, as well, to render into intelligible 

 and not inelegant vernacular, a popular production of one of the most 

 distinguished phytologists of the present day. We do not say that 

 Schleiden's new book is by any means what we expected to find it ; 



