521 



another by Mr. Borrer, Phylol. i. 611 ; another by the same author, 

 Phytol. ii. 432, which confirms the Caen-Wood but not the Hovvick 

 station ; and, finally, the remarks of Mr. Watson, Cyh. Brit. ii. 465. 



—Ed.\ 



Proceedings of Societies. 



Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 



Thursday, March 11, 1852. — Professor Balfour, Vice-President, in 

 the chair. 



Donations were announced of Moore's ' Garden ComjDanion and 

 Florists' Guide,' from the editor, and of a packet of plants from Mr. 

 Oliver, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, including beautiful specimens of Erica 

 Mackaiana. 



The Society presented the following specimens to the Museum of 

 Economic Botany at the Royal Botanic Garden : — Forty sections of 

 woods grown in Britain ; collection of fifty-eight kinds of seeds and 

 fruits, including many interesting medicinal species, presented by Dr. 

 Christison j collection of twenty kinds of seeds and fruits, and of 

 twenty-one varieties of woods, from the Cape of Good Hope, presented 

 by Dr. Eraser ; six pine-cones, presented by Sir W. C. Trevelyan ; 

 collection of twenty-two kinds of Barbadoes woods, presented by Al- 

 leyne Maynard, Esq. ; sixteen varieties of woods used in ship-build- 

 ing, presented by Dr. Maclagan ; specimens of Agaricus, Polyporus, 

 and Boletus, collected by Dr. Wallich in India, and by Dr. Lippold 

 in Madeira, presented by Dr. Greville ; collection of Syrian seeds, 

 presented by Professor Edward Forbes. 



Dr. Balfour announced the following donations to the Museum of 

 Economic Botany at the Botanic Garden, received since the last meet- 

 ing of the Society : — 1. From Sir William Jardine, Bart., Jardine Hall, 

 two sections of an aged thorn, of which he remarks : — " In regard to 

 the thorn, we have two very large trees here, both of which were much 

 shaken by the great storm of the 7 th of January, 1838 or 1839. The 

 principal one being split and irretrievably damaged, we hooped it, and 

 took other precautions ; but about three years since they both fell 

 during a very severe winter gale. It was a remarkable one, though no 

 notice was at the time taken of it. I was sitting, either reading or 

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