BOTANICAL SOCIETY OP CANADA. 
41 
Third Meeting. 
FRIDAY EVENING, 15th FEBRUARY, 1861. 
The Society met in the Convocation Hall of Queen's College, on Friday evening, 
15th February. Dr. Fowler, V.P., afterwards Rev. Principal Leitch, P., in the 
chair. About 200 members and visitors were present. Minutes of Council were 
read, from which it appeared that arrangements had been made for printing the 
Society's " Annals," and that the first part of the " Annals" would be ready for 
delivery to members in April. 
The following Members and Subscribers were formally admitted, viz : Mrs Dr. 
George, William street ; Mrs Kirkpatrick, King street ; Miss Bridger, Queen street ; 
Miss Crooks, Hamilton, C. W. ; Miss Kirkpatrick, King street ; Miss Mulkins, 
Hawthorn Cottage ; Mrs. Isabella Mackenzie, Mrs. Colin Miller, Rev. James George, 
D.D., Professor of Logic and Mental and Moral Philosophy, Queen's College ; Rev. 
J. A. Allan, Alwington House ; Judge Logic, Hamilton ; Thomas Kirkpatrick, Q. 
C. ; Archibald H. Campbell, Commercial Bank, Kingston ; Colonel Robert Jackson, 
Kingston ; G. F. De R. Jackson, Kingston ; John Paton, Kingston ; John Kerr, 
Manager of the Kingston Gas Works ; Jeremiah Meagher, Union street, Kingston ; 
W. George Draper, M.A., Barrister, Lecturer in the Law Faculty of Queen's Col- 
lege ; John Carruthers, Earl street ; James McCaul, B.A., Grammar School, Bath, 
C.W. ; James C. Smith, Librarian of Queen's College; G. M. Kinghorn, Wellington 
street ; G. B. Kirkpatrick, Comer's Mills ; Donald Ross, Queen's College ; Colin 
Miller, Kingston ; John McCoy, Napanee ; John Eraser, Earl street ; Hugh Eraser, 
Bellevue Terrace ; John W. Slaven, Milford C.W. ; Allan A. Y. Ramsay, New- 
market, C.W. 
The following gentlemen were elected Corresponding Members, viz : Kenneth 
Mclver, Koussanee Tea Plantation, near Almorah, Kumaon, India ; Robert Bell, 
Assistant Geologist of the Government Geological Survey of Canada, Montreal ; 
Guerin Meneville, Lamotte, Beuvron, France. 
The following donations to the Society's Library were announced : From Dr. 
Dawson, Principal of McGill College Montreal, Hon.M.B.S. Ca., the following works 
by the donor : Acadian Geology, or the Geological Structure and Mineral Resour- 
ces of Nova Scotia ; Fossil Plants, from the Devonian Rocks of Canada; The Vege- 
table Structures in Coal ; Notes on the Post Pliocene Deposits of the St. Lawrence 
Valley ; Catalogue of the Holmes' Herbarium, McGill College, by Dr. Barnston. 
From J. J. Burrowes, Esq., Law Lecturer, University of Queen's College: Pursh's 
Flora of North America, 2 vols. 8 vo. From Mr. Holmes, Kingston: Botanical 
Sketches of the Twenty-four Classes of Linnaeus, 50 plates; Exotic Cultivated Ferns, 
with Hints as to their Culture, and a Synopsis of Genera and Species, by Thomas 
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