EXTEACTS FEOM PROCEEDINGS. 
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GENERAL MEETING. 
J. Bateman, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 
M. Karl Koch, MM. Eegel and Volkenstein, M. v. Hejder, M. 
Morren, together with MM. Linden, Gloner, and Prof. Perard, M. 
Antoine, and Mr. D. Moore were formally received by the Council. 
Mr. Wilson stated that a Medal had been awarded by the 
Council to the Queen Pines shown by Mr. Perkins, on account of 
their extraordinary quick production from unrooted suckers in 
twelve months. He then adverted to some promising Peas sent 
by Mr. Laxton; but it had been determined that no Peas should 
have certificates till they had been tested at Chiswick. 
The Chairman stated that the importation of Orchids was not 
so profitable as was generally supposed, in consequence of the 
number which were dead when they arrived. 
EOSE SHOW. 
The weather had been highly unfavourable, still the blooms 
were good in colour and substance and remarkably clean. The 
miscellaneous class was enriched by collections of plants from Mr. 
J. Linden and M. A. Dalliere. To the former were given Eirst- 
class Certificates for Epidendrum Frederici GuUelmi, Alleplectus 
vittatus, Dioscorea chrysophylla, D. Eldorado, and D. prismatiea^ 
Maranta Mazellii, M. Wallisii, var. discolor, Dieffenhachia impe- 
rialis, and Dioscorea meleayris,Ar alia japonica,Y Sir. aureo-reticulata, 
had a Second-class ; a Silver Medal was awarded to hfm : M. 
Dalliere also had a Silver Medal for his magnificent collection of 
Marantas, and a Special Certificate for a series of Palms. 
ELOEAL COMMITTEE. 
Jtjlt 19, 1871. 
Eirst-class Certificates were given to M. Jean Verschafielt for 
Agave elegantissima, A. sp. nov., A. Regeli, var. macrodonta, and 
A. Mescal, var. foliis striatis, Encephalartos Vroomi, Zamia sp. nov., 
from New Caledonia, and for a new form of DicJcsonia from St. 
Catharine's, Brazil ; to Messrs. Mackoy for Tillandsia complanata 
