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PROCKKDINnS OF TIlK 



Paxtou's Magazine of liotauy, tor March, from the Editor. 

 With and \'th Annual Report of the Ferdinandeuvi, at Innsbruck, 

 1840 and 1841. 



Hejiort on ihv Botanic Garden of the Ivrdinandoum, at hnisbruck, 

 1840. 



The ylthrn.rum, for February, from the Editor. 

 .-/(•/(/ Jradcmuv Nuturw curiusorum, Vol. XIX. Supplement 5 

 (liunn, 1841.) 



April 4, 1842. 

 GARDEN COMMITTEE. 



The Superintendent of the Orchard and Kitchen Garden 

 re])()rted, tliat farther trials had been made with Nitrate of Soda 

 and Quicksilver for the destruction of Slugs. 



The tirst crop of Teas, sown November 25, 1841, was totally 

 destroyed j and another sowing, February 11, partially so. The 

 destruction was effected under ground by a dark coloured slug, 

 the same as tliat which eats the tubers of Potatoes ; IBlbs. of 

 Nitrate of Soda killed a vast number j but this could not well 

 be effected after the crop got above ground. The whole of the 

 Kitchen Garden was therefore very early in the morning, sprinkled 

 over with six bushels of hot lime, and the dead slugs were to be 

 seen as numerous as 12 in a square foot. This process has been 

 since twice repeated with nearly similar effects. 



Taking into comparison the expense of Nitrate of Soda and 

 that of Lime, in order to effect an equal amount of destruction, 

 it has been computed that the Lime is not one-tenth part so 

 expensive as Nitrate of Soda, whilst it can be applied over most 

 kinds of foliage without injury to such. But on the other hand. 

 Nitrate of Soda may be more advantageously employed in parti- 

 cular cases to destroy those that lurk at a considerable depth 

 below the surface, and there feed, as in the case of the Potato 

 crops of last year, which were in many instances destroyed to an 

 extent quite unprecedented. 



April 5, 1842. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



The following gentleman was elected a Foreign Corresponding 

 Member of the Society : 



Dr.M'illiam Henry De Vriese, Professor of Botany, Amsterdam. 



