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The Botanical Register for November, from the Publishers. 



Baiter's British Floicering Plants, No. 76, from the Editor. 



The Athenccum for the month of October, from the Editor. 



Flora Batava, No. 1 1.5, from his Majesty the King of Holland. 



Comptes rendits des Seances de VAccdemie des Sciences, &c. Nos. 

 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, from the Academy of Sciences at Paris. 



Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft des vaterldndisches Museums in 

 Bohmen, from'^lS'23 to 1826, and from 1832 to 1838, from the 

 President, Count Sternberg. 



Dec. 4, 1838. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



There was read ; A Report upon the Effects produced on 

 Plants by the Frost which occurred in England in the Winter of 

 1837-8. By the Vice Secretary. 



The author stated, that in consequence of the unusual severity 

 of the season reported upon, he had applied to various persons 

 resident in different parts of the country for information respect- 

 ing the effects of the cold upon plants, as observed by them. 

 After mentioning the circumstances under which each set of 

 observations was made, and showing that while the thermometer 

 feU as low as 121° Fahr. below zero in some parts of Kent, it 

 was not observed at Dublin and Kilkenny below 20^ above zero, 

 while in the Isle of Wight it fell to 15° and in Cornwall to 12° 

 above zero, the reporter proceeded to examine the results thus 

 produced, firstly in a tabular manner with reference to particular 

 species, and secondly geographically, by stating under separate 

 heads, and in great detail, the effect of cold upon plant* intro- 

 duced to gardens from Australia, California and Mexico, China, 

 Japan, New Zealand, the West Indies, North America, excluding 

 California and Mexico, the Himalaya Mountains, Cape of Good 

 Hope, South of Europe, Levant and North of Africa with adja- 

 cent islands, and finally from Chili and similar South American 

 regions. 



With reference to this interesting subject, the following state- 

 ments were made. 



*' Of Australian plants, none seem to have been able to bear 

 so much as even -|- 12°, except Billardiera longiflora, which is 

 recorded at Glasgow to have borne — 1° at the foot of a south 

 wall, and a Eucalj^tus, called alpina, which escaped at Norwich ; 

 it will, however, be probably found that this circumstance is, in 

 both cases, attributable to some unexplained cause. It, therefore, 



