Report of Meetings. By James Hardy. 



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Anthriscus vulgaris. 



Tragopogon pratensis. 



Carlina vulgaris. 



Erythr£3a littoralis. 



Hyoscyamus niger. 



Mertensia maritima 



Asperugo procumbens. 



Cynoglossum officinale. 



Echium vulgare some magnifi- 

 cent plants among the sand- 

 hills. 



Anagallis arvensis. 



Anagallis tenella. 



Samolus Valerandi. 



Armeria maritima (pure white). 



Littorella lacustris. 



Suseda maritima. 



Salicornia herbacea. 



Salix repens, var. prostata ? 



Orchis latifolia, var. incarnata 



(very fine). 

 Allium vineale. 

 Blysmus compressus. 

 Carex incurva. 

 vulpina. (Margin of small 



pool between Beal Farm 



and the Island; . 



distans. 



Poa compressa. 

 Botrychium Lunaria. 

 Lycopodium Selaginoides. 



J. F." 



Lowlynn was open to tlie Club, where there is a collection of 

 rock plants, which were much admired, A small party, after 

 visiting the island, drove to Haggerston House, and saw the 

 garden and grounds. The floral show is on the ribbon system ; 

 but there are also a few herbaceous plants of old standing, none 

 of them rare. The greenhouse was well stocked with ferns, and 

 the flowering plants were a good selection. The apricot trees 

 here sometimes die suddenly on the walls without apparent 

 cause. Many of the hollies had succumbed to the severity of 

 recent winters, and a large tree of Sequoia gigantea (or Welltng- 

 tonia) was killed here. Araucaria imhricata was comjiaratively 

 unimpaired. The house is capacious, but it is only inhabited in 

 the shooting season. 



A number of the party had to catch early trains, but there still 

 remained about forty, who met at dinner at the Half-way House. 

 The President, G. P. Hughes, Esq., of Middleton Hall, occupied 

 the chair, the vice-chair being filled by the Eev. James Far- 

 quharson, Selkirk, After dinner the following six gentlemen 

 ■were proposed as new members : — Mr James Thomson, Shaw- 

 don ; Mr James Thin, jun., Edinburgh ; Dr Eobert Shirra Gibb, 

 Boon, Lauder ; Col. Forster of Sanson Seal ; Mr William Eobeit- 

 son, Alnwick ; and Mr Richard Burdon Sanderson of Budle. 

 The following papers were read or laid before the meeting. — I. 

 " William Stevenson : his Scientific Work and Writings," with 

 an obituary notice. By Professor Duns, D.D., F.E.S.E., of the 

 New College, Edinburgh. This memoir also contained selections 

 from the letters of eminent scientific men addressed to Mr 

 Stevenson. 2. "On the Damage done to Pine Trees at Coup- 

 land Castle by the Snowstorms of Winter 1882-3." By M. T. 



