SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, NOVEMBER 18. 



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Peas, induced by the minerals, largely increased the supply of combined 

 nitrogen, and this, in conjunction with the residual minerals, produced 

 more succulent Turnips, which were, therefore, more favoured by the 

 pests. 



Scientific Committee, November 18, 1902. 



Dr. M. T. Masters, F.R.S., in the Chair, and sixteen members present. 



Dr. M. C. Cooke, V.M.H. — Dr. Masters rose to offer in^the name of 

 the Committee their hearty congratulations and goodwill to Dr. M. C. 

 Cooke on having been presented by the Council with the Society's Victoria 

 Medal of Honour. Dr. Cooke in reply observed, in thanking the Com- 

 mittee, that he had no anticipation of the honour, as it was quite un- 

 expected, since whatever he had done was always con amove. (Fig. 261.) 



Fig. 261.— M. C. Cooke, M.A., L.L.D., V.M.H. (Journal of Horticulture. 



Malformed Cijpripcdium. — Dr. Masters reported on the drawing 

 submitted at a previous meeting by Mr. Saunders. The flower is an illus- 

 tration of a common tendency in Orchids to produce the flower-segments 

 in whorls of two. The two lower sepals were confluent into a single segment 

 placed anteriorly, and forming one of a pair with one of the ordinarily 

 lateral petals, here displaced so as to become median and posterior. The 

 other lateral petal is absent. Numerous malformations in the genus 

 Gypripednm are given in Dr. Masters's paper on the subject in the 

 Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. xxii. 1887, p. 402, and in "Orchids, 

 Single and Double," Gardeners'' Chronicle, May 5, 1885. 



Stenoglottis longifolia. — Mr. Odell brought spikes of this South 

 African Orchid with fasciated stems. The flowers are very small, pale 



