BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 
17 
Second Meeting. 
FRIDAY EVENING, 11th JANUARY, 1861. 
The Society met in the Chemistry Class Room of Queen's College, — the Very 
Rev. Principal Leitch, D. D,, in the Chair. Notwithstanding the coldness of the 
Evening (the temperature being 20 below zero) there was a large attendance of 
Fellows and Subscribers, about 103 being present. Among those observed were, 
Professor Williamson, Dr. Trousdale, from Newboro', Mr. Flanagan, City Clerk, 
Professor Weir, Mr. Hinds, Banker, Dr. Brown, Waterloo, Prof Mowat, Prof. 
Stewart, Prof Dickson, Prof. Yates, Prof Lawson, Mr. Creighton, Prof Lavell, Mr. 
May, B. A., Dr. Octavius Yates, Mr. Machar, Jr., B. A., Mr. Macdonell, M. A., Mr. 
Thomas Gordon, Mr. A. T. Drummond, B. A., Mr. Gra^it, Cataraqui Cemetery, Mr. 
Alex. Cowan, Mr. Ferguson, Mr. J. M. Eraser, B. A., Mr. Agnew, B. A., Mr. Skin- 
ner, Mr. Schultz, Mr. Duff, and many other citizens. Members of the University of 
Queen's College, and others. Letters of apology for unavoidable absence from the 
meeting were read from Professor Litchfield, Rotikwood, Mr. Baxter, Pittsburgh, 
Mr. Briggs, Williamsvillc, and Dr. Dupuis, Odessa, Letters, expressing a warm in- 
terest in the Society's proceedings were also read from numerous botanists in Canada 
and the United States, including Professor Asa Gray, of Harvard University, Pro- 
fessor Hincks, Toronto University, Sir William Logan, Principal Dawson, McGill 
College, Professor Blackie, University of Nashville, Mr. Laing, Hamilton, C, W., 
and Mr. Macoun, Belleville. 
The Minutes of last Meeting were read and approved of, and the Laws therein 
recorded were finally adopted as the Laws of the Botanical Society of Canada. 
The following names were added to the list of Fellows *and Subscribers, viz: — • 
Mrs. Weir, Heathfield ; Mrs. Lawson, Kingston ; Rev. T. H. M. Bartlett, Chaplain 
to H. M. Forces, Kingston; Hon. John A. Macdonald, Attorney General West, 
Quebec; Hon. Alexander Campbell, M. L. C, Kingston; John R. Dickson, M. D., 
Professor of Surgery, Queen's College ; Orlando S. Strange, M. D., ex-Mayor of 
Kingston; Marshal J. Brown, M. D., Waterloo; J. J. Burro wes, Barrister, County 
Crown Attorney, and Law Lecturer to Queen's College, Kingston; Peter E. Hubou, 
M. D., Worcester, Mass. ; Wm. Mostyn, M. D., Almonte, C. W. ; Thomas W. Robi- 
son, M. D., Kingston; George S. Rose, M. D., Smith's Falls; James D. Trousdale, 
Newboro'-on-the-Rideau ; Alex. Cowan, King Street, Kingston ; John Creighton, 
City Book Store, Kingston ; Alpine Grant, Superintendent Cataraqui Cemetery Co., 
Waterloo; T. B.Harper, Ordnance Department, Kingston; George Laing, Land- 
scape Gardener, Hamilton, C. W. ; John Macoun, Belleville ; E. H. Parker, Market 
Square, Kingston; John Bell, L'Origual, C. W. ; John Agnew, B. A., Kingston; 
W. Sullivan, Kingston ; John C. Schultz, Fort Garry, Red River Settlement ; 
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