GENERAL MEETINGS. 



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GENERAL MEETING. 



Decembeb 11, 1894. 



Sir Alexander J. Abbuthnot, K.C.S.I., in the Chair. 



Fellows elected (13). — Chas. S. Brayne, Rev. E. Dean, Lt.- 

 Gen. Stanley de B. Edwards, Geo. Mcintosh Fleming, F. S. 

 Fowler, Mrs. Rose Johnson, Richard Lye, Harold E. Moore, 

 F.S.I., Earl of Morley, J. Cavendish Orred, H. W. Potts, 

 Chas. W. Richardson. 



SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 



July 10, 1894. 



Dr. D. Mobbis, C.M.G., in the Chair, and six members present. 



Calochortus vars. — Mr. Wilson exhibited specimens remark- 

 able for their fine growth and varieties of colouring. They were 

 C. venustus purpurascens, C. v. roseus, and a pure white form. 

 References to descriptions and figures of C. venustus, Benth., a 

 native of California, will be found in Baker's " Revision of the 

 Genera and Species of Tulipeae," Journ. Lin. Soc. xiv. p. 302. 

 Mr. Wilson observed that this species was drawn by Mrs. Dufneld 

 about twenty-five years ago, and reproduced in the Garden. It 

 is also figured in Trans. Hort. Soc. ii. (1) [1835], t. 15, fig. 3. 

 Mr. Baker places Calochortus as the sixth and last genus of the 

 tribe Tulipea3, enumerating twenty-one species from Mexico and 

 Western North America. 



Sugar Cane diseased. — Mr. Blandford reported on specimens 

 received from Barbadoes. They were badly diseased with the 

 fungus Trichosphasria sacchari, and in some cases bored by the 

 beetle Sphenophorus. This disease is as yet only known to 

 occur in Mauritius, Java, and Barbadoes. Dr. Morris observed 

 that it first appeared in Barbadoes and was called the "rind " 

 disease ; it then occurred in the roots in Java, being thought to 

 be distinct from the former ; but the two forms will probably 

 prove to be one and the same. A summary of the nature of the 

 disease is contained in a letter to the Colonial Office, Kew 

 Bulletin, June 1894, pp. 175, 176. 



