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of Savoy. Mr Percy strongly recommended the Brezon, a moun- 

 tain about fifteen miles from Geneva^ to the attention of botanists 

 who commence their excursions in Savoy, as it not only presents a 

 great variety of alpine plants, but affords the greatest facilities for 

 obtaining them. The " Jardin" was described as consisting of a 

 few exposed and almost naked masses of rock, occupying only a 

 small triangular area, which is bounded by the " Moraines" of the 

 adjacent glaciers ; and the appellation " garden" was stated to be 

 merely applied by comparison with the desert around. An enume- 

 ration was given of 33 Phaenogamous and 6 Cryptogamous species, 

 which were collected at the Jardin, from an elevation of 9000 feet 

 above the level of the sea. 



Mr Campbell read a letter from Mr R. Ball, Dublin, to Sir W. 

 J. Hooker, mentioning that Erica vagaiis had been discovered by 

 Dr Burkett, on an islet on the coast of Waterford, near Tramore 

 in Ireland. 



Dr Barry exhibited specimens of the plants collected by him in 

 his ascent of Mont Blanc, 16-18th September 1834. A list of 

 the plants collected by Dr Barry, so far as named, was communi- 

 cated by him ; dividing them first, into those from below the snow 

 line, which was stated to be in that Lat. 8000 feet above the sea ; 

 and, second, those from the Grand Mulet rock, about 9000 feet 

 above the sea, or nearly 2000 feet above the line of perpetual snow. 

 The Curator, Mr J. M'Nab, exhibited specimens of Cinclidium 

 stygiiim, a moss new to Britain, discovered by Mr John Nowel, 

 of Plalifax, on a moor near Maltham Tarn, in Yorkshire ; commu- 

 nicated by ^Ir Leyland. 



Mr M'Nab also read a communication, giving an account of some 

 remarkable forms of Norway spruce, (Abies communis, J growing 

 on the property of Whim, in the county of Peebles. 



Feb. 9th. — Dr Balfour in the Chair. The following members 

 were elected : — Resident, Mr A. Mack, Mr. Edward R, Roberts, 

 Dr Alexander Van Rensselaer, Mr Julius Veronge, Mr Frank Isa 

 White. — Non-Resident, Professor Royle, London. — Foreign, Colonel 

 Brown, Thun, Switzerland; M. Guthnick, Berne, Switzerland; 

 Professor Meisner, Basle, Switzerland. 



In accordance with certain resolutions come to at an extraordinary 

 meeting of the Society held on 4th inst., providing for the election 

 of honorary members, and fixing the number of these at six British 

 and twenty-five Foreign, the following noblemen and gentlemen 

 were elected, viz. — British, His Grace the Duke of Bedford, His 

 Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Robert Brown, Aylmer Bourke '. 



