PROCEEDINGS. 



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hinted by some ; but quite the contrary, as indeed all evi - 

 dence goes to prove. The fruit in question was well 

 coloured ; and the leaves, some of which accompanied the 

 fruit, were large, clean, and very healthy. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Echeveria retusa, 

 a Mexican species, lately received from Mr. Hartweg ; and 

 Trymalium odoratissimum, a graceful Swan River shrub, 

 covered with drooping panicles of small white blossoms, 

 which are scented like a hawthorn. 



Books Presented. 



"Sanatory Tracts, - ' No. 1 (Water and Air). From the Author, Dr. A. Booth. 

 Niederdsterreichisches Landwirthsehaftliches Wochen-Blatt, Nos. 1 to 52, 1845. 

 Verhandlungen der K. K. Landwirthschafts-Gesellschaft in Wien, Vol. 3, Parts 1 and 



2, N. S. From the Agricultural Society of Vienna. 

 Discours sur les Fleurs Nationales de Belgique, et sur l'Utilite de creer des Jardins 



Historiques, destines a l'enseignement de l'Histoire de la l'atrie. ParChas. Morren. 



From the Author. 8vo. Brussels, 1846. 

 Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India. Vol. V., Part 2. 



From the Society. 



Memoire sur le» Plantes sarclees a Racines Alimentaires. (8vo. Rouen, 

 1843.) 



Enquete sur le Cidre faite a St. Pierre-sur- Dives, le 6 Oct. 1845. (8vo. wr*«... 



Caen, 1^6.) , - , M Zh 



Des Assolements et de leur Application a la Culture du Departement J i 'r» 



de la Seine Inferieure. (8vo. Rouen, 1K42.) uu Brem1 ' 



Des Principales Ameliorations a apporter dans le Mode de Culture et 



les Instruments employes dans l'Arrondissement de Rouen. (1845.) , 

 Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. 3, Part 4, and Proceedings of 



the Society, Nos. 161 to 166 inclusive. From the Society. 



April 20, 1847. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. Sir John Cathcart, Bart., Cooper's Hill, Engle- 

 field Green, Surrey; Lancelot Dent, Esq., 8, Fitzroy Square ; 

 John Jardine, Esq., Turnham Green ; Joseph Sandars, Esq., 

 Taplow House, Maidenhead; and Edward Osborne Smith, 

 F.S.A. and F.G.S., 24a, Bryanstone Square. 



Awards. Knightian Medal to Messrs. Loddiges, of Hack- 

 ney, for Acineta Humboldti, Oncidium cornigerum, Com- 

 parettia rosea, Zygopetalum tricolor, Vanda peduncularis, 

 Bolbophyllum barbigerum, and other Orchids. 

 Banksian Medals : To Messrs. Henderson, of Pine Apple 

 Place, for a collection of Hyacinths, and three specimen 

 Azaleas, named Phoenicea Herberti, Triumphans, and Mag- 

 nifica. To Mr. Davis, of Oak Hill, East Barnet, for " New 

 Dutch Sweetwater " and " Black Hamburgh " Grapes ; 

 very fine bunches for the season. 

 Certificates of Merit : To Mr. C. Ewing, gardener to O. F. 

 Meyrick, Esq., F.H.S., for a dish of forced Chinese Cherries, 

 the fruit of Prunus pseudo-cerasus, a tree introduced into 

 this country by the Society many years ago. The fruit is 

 about as large as a sparrow's egg, of a reddish amber colour, 

 and furnished at its point with a tumour. Mr. Ewing 



