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Then followed a short paper under the heading of ‘ Remarks on the 
Coffee Leaf Disease,’ by Mr. Wm. Bidie, in a letter addressed to 
and communicated by Mr. J. Cameron, of Bungalore. The Coorg 
country referred _ is situated in the Western Ghats, and the 
European varie in coffee has here wholly meth Sap there 
within the last fet five years, and no disease was observed till 
jour or five years ago. The somes mentions that the peti ‘ 
appears to have ge imported from Ceylon or ed way 0 oe 
t fr 
gloon, a district of Mysore, ae miles dista om Coorg. It 
seems worst in pared a exposed fields, ae least where there 
is shade and rich soil. _ red insect has been noticed 
e disease as yet remains mide termined. Plants grown from 
been successfully tried, a ‘pit being dug at short intervals, wherein, 
by pruning, are burie d all the affected leaves; and this seems to 
check the spread of the disease, particularly among the Coorg 
er 
Coffee Disease in Sou ith America,’ describing and summarising 
the data extant, and showing that up to the present time coffee 
plantations in Ve ee Costa Rica, Bogota, Caraccas, and 
amaica have been affect 
February 17th. eat Crisp, Esq., LL.B., F.L.8., in the 
chair.—Mr. W. Wickham exhibited and made "remarks on two 
collections of plants from the Arctic regions. Of the fifty-seven 
— of flowering eg —— by yeh in H. A. Markham in 
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cams land, obtained by Mr. Grant, who accompanied Mr. Leigh 
mith in his successful voyage S ther i in 1880. Some sixty-one 
species ‘of flowering plants were collected, but from the account 
