PROCEEDINGS OF SOCTETIES. 83 
Leaving, however, the question of their utility, it is certainly to be 
regretted that a better model was not followed in this series, or that 
their author should have been influenced by any dekh biting 
With the exception of the use of a bolder type and the omission of the 
Linnean class and order, these a te differ in no ma from the 
. Pamplin. Each lab 
the collector’s name is a little over three-quarters of an inch long by 
one-quarter high. A very unmeaning feature of the old labels has 
in giving definite localities for segregates and 
i 
y other h the printi 
localities is very likely t eee the toeitiner into supposing gre 
are only to be found the wah 
ough, therefore, sinae can scarcely be given to this page 
as a series of labels, in another aspect it is of some usefulness. The 
volume forms a comprehensive and generally accurate tatigas of the 
British Flora, with all the latest seek abeoin duly entered, and the 
whole arranged a according to the usual sequence followed in this 
count, No less than 3544 labels a are included in the volume, this 
large number being partly the result S duplicates being given when- 
ever the auithiGnitios followed differ as to the natural order, but partly 
to the large number of casuals and atfaie admitted. Asa ae full 
list of British species brought up to the end of the year 1872, the 
possesses an independent value. It may be added that the whole 
is very well printed and remarkably free from misprints or oe ors. 
Proceedings of Societies. 
Borantcat Socrery or Enrvsurcu.—WVovember 14th, 1872. Prof. 
Wyville Thompson, President, in the chair. eer ps ident delivered 
an address upon Fermentation and Putrefaction. Mr. John Sim 
cottage garden near Perth. Mr. Sadler exhibited specimens of a 
species of Lupinus, resembling LZ. luteus, which he found growing in 
a turnip-field near Blackshields, about sixteen miles from Edinburgh, 
the seeds having probably been introduced with guano. Dr. John 
a noticed the oceurrence of Cicendia filiformis in considerable 
bundance on Roydon Common, near Lynn, Norfolk, where it was 
