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INTELLIGENCE. 



Miscellaneous. 



Botanical Society. — 1837, November9th. — Professor Graham, 

 President, in the Chair. — The following members were elected : 

 Resident, Mr A. H. Balfour ; Mr James Crossfield ; Mr Alexander 

 Dempster. Non-resident, Mr C. E. Broome of Rudloe ; Mr Samuel 

 Holker Haslam, of Chesham ; Mr John Sheer, Aberdeen. Foreign, 

 M. S. Bischoff, Berne ; M. George Dolliner, Vienna ; M. F. Glocker, 

 Berne ; Dr Oswald Heer, Professor of Botany in the University 

 of Zurich ; M. Albert Kolliker, Zurich ; Dr Francis Lagger, Fri- 

 bourg ; Rev. Christian Munch, Basle ; M. Charles Naegeli, Zurich ; 

 M.Phil. Max. Opitz, Prague; M. L. Rabenhorst, Luckau ; M. 

 J. L. Schaller, Fribourg ; M. R. Schartow, Berne ; M. C. Sinz, 

 Berne ; Professor John Bernh. Wilbrand, Giessen. 



Specimens were presented from Sir William Jardine and^twenty- 

 four members of the Society, received since 13th July last, along 

 with various donations to the library from Professor Wilbrand, 

 Mr J. T. Mackay, Professor Heer, Mr R. J. Shuttleworth, Mr 

 P. J. Brown, M. P. M. Opitz, and MrR. W. Falconer, &c. &c. The 

 thanks of the Society were given to Dr Greville, Dr Balfour, and 

 Mr Brand, for their exertions and trouble in collecting for the So- 

 ciety, a large stock of Alpine duplicates, chiefly from the mountains 

 of Forfarshire and Aberdeenshire. 



Mr R. W. Falconer exhibited a specimen of Celosia cristala rais- 

 ed from seed, in the open air, in a garden near Bath, which by fre- 

 quent transplantation had attained to a great size. This plant is 

 a native of Japan, where Thunberg says the crests or heads of flowers 

 are often one foot in length and breadth, but that when removed 

 from their native soil they rapidly degenerate. The flower in the 

 specimen shown measured 2 feet 4^ inches from side to side, and 

 1 foot 2^ inches across, and was one of twenty equally large. 



Dr Balfour read an extract from a letter which he had recently 

 received from Mr W. B. Carpenter of Bristol, wherein Mr Carpen- 

 ter mentioned that, on tracing up the reproductive system, from its 

 simplest appearance in the lowest cryptogamic to its most special- 

 ized form in the highest flowering plants, he was inclined to think 



