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Botanical Society of London. 



Friday, November 2, 1849. — John Reynolds, Esq., Treasurer, in 

 the chair. 



The following donations were announced : — 



' Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liver- 

 pool during the Thirty-seventh Session ;' presented by that Society. 

 ' Parts 1 and 2 of Volume i, of Transactions of the Royal Society of 

 Arts and Sciences of Mauritius ;' presented by that Society. ' On 

 the Destructive Power of the Scolitus destructor and Larva of the 

 Cossus ligniperda,' by Dr. C. J. Cox ; presented by the Royal Bo- 

 tanic Society of London. ' Pharmaceutical Journal and Transac- 

 tions;' presented by the Pharmaceutical Society. 



British plants from Mr. G. S. Gibson, Mr. B. Wardale, Mr. F. R. 

 Goulding, Mr. T. Moore, Rev. F. Douglas, Mrs. E. M. Jones, Mr. J. 

 Wynne, Mr. R. Embleton, and Mr. Wing. 



Mr. W. Evans, of Llanrwst; and Mr. E.Browne, of Burton-on- 

 Trent, were elected corresponding members. 



Mr. Thomas Moore communicated a paper ' On Dr. Dickie's Cys- 

 topteris.'— G. E. D. 



Notice of ' Foot-prints of the Creator : or the Asterolepis of Strom - 

 ness: By Hugh Miller, Author of ' The Old Red Sandstone,' 

 &c. London : Johnstone and Hunter, 26, Paternoster Row ; 

 and 15, Princes Street, Ediuburgh. 1849. • 



About nine years ago geologists were " taken aback" by the sudden 

 appearance of a colleague, whose discoveries in the Old Red Sandstone, 

 a deposit previously looked upon as singularly barren of fossil organic 

 remains, opened up a new field to the investigations of the scientific, 

 and developed facts of so wonderful and unlooked for a nature, that 

 their discovery rendered necessary the abandonment, or at least the 

 modification, of many a long-cherished hypothesis, and gave a new 

 aspect to several portions of the existing systems of Geology. These 

 discoveries received the commendation they richly deserved, from some 

 of our most eminent geologists at the Meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion in September, 1849; and their author, Mr. Hugh Miller, at once 

 took the highest position among the learned, both as an original 



