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PROCEEDINGS. 



January 19, 1847. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. Miss Charlotte Sim, Coombe Wood House, near 

 Kingston, Surrey ; and Mr. Conrad Loddiges, of Hackney. 



Awards. Knightian Medal : To Mr. Carton, gardener to His 

 Grace the Duke of Northumberland, at Syon, for a ripe 

 fruit of Theobroma Cacao. This fruit was believed to be 

 the first that has been produced in this country. It was set 

 about the beginning of August, and the plant has conti- 

 nued to flower from the stem and branches up to the present 

 time. The tree is between three and four years old, about 

 7 feet high, with a clear*stem of about 5 feet ; it has been 

 grown on the large shift system, abundantly supplied with 

 water, but well drained. Mr. Carton also sent some fruit of 

 Carica papaya. There is another variety at Syon which pro- 

 duces a cluster of fruit at the top, close to the stem of the 

 plant, but the fruit is not quite so large as those now sent ; 

 the fruit-bearing flower of this variety is produced at the 

 end of the long foot-stalks, and is about double the size of 

 the other flowers. 

 Banksian Medals : To Mr. Catleugh, of Chelsea, for an ex- 

 ceedingly well grown specimen of Eranthemum pulchellum, 

 measuring at least 5 feet in diameter ; and to Mr. Mason, 

 gardener to Sir John Kennaway, Bart., for a Queen Pine- 

 Apple, handsome for the season, weighing 4 lbs. 2 oz. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. The true Ha- 

 brothamnus elegans, one of Mr. Hartweg's introductions. 

 It proves to be a handsome greenhouse-plant, very different 

 from the things sometimes sold under that name, many of 

 which have turned out to be unworthy of cultivation. 



Books Presented. 



The Athenaeum for December. From the Editor. 



The Botanical Register for January. From the Publishers. 



On the Correlation of Physical Forces, being the substance of a course of Lectures 



delivered in the London Institution in the vear 1843. By W. R. Grove, Esq. 



And Vols. II. and III., in continuation, of the Library of the London Institution. 



From the Managers of the London Institution. 

 The Agricultural Magazine and Journal of Scientific Farming, for December, 1846, 



and January, 1847. From the Editor. 

 The Mystery Solved, or the Potato Decay ; its Cause and Remedy. By James Glenn, 



of New York. From Viscount Palmerston. 

 The Cause of the Potato Disease ascertained ;by Proofs, and the Prevention proved 



by Practice. By Law. Rawstorne, Esq., Penwortham, near Chorley. From the 



Aut hor. 



The Naturalist's Pocket Almanac for 1847. From the Publishers. 



Parts 3 & 4, Vol. III., Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, Vol. IV., an<l Part 1, Vol. V., of the Journal 



of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India. From the Hon. the East 



India Company. 



