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The following papers were also read : — 
1. On the History, Properties and Cultivation of Cotton. By F. R. Stanton. 
Communicated by Dr Horatio Yates, Professor of Medicine. 
2. List of Plants observed in the neighborhood of Prescott, C. W., chiefly in 
1860. By B. Billings, Jr., F. B. S. C. 
3. On the Sugar Maple, and the Preparation of Sugar and Saccharine Solu- 
tions from Maple Sap. By John May, A. M. 
4. Notices of the destructive effects of Frost on Vegetation in Britain during 
the present winter, from Letters of Professor Balfour, Edinburgh, Dr. John 
Lowe, King's Lynn, and other correspondents. By Prof. Lawson. 
Sixth Meeting. 
FRIDAY EVENING, 12th APRIL, 1861. 
The Very Rev. Principal Leitch, D. D., President, in the Chair. 
The following Candidates were balloted for, and duly elected Fellows of the 
Society, viz : — Hon. William Sheppard, D. C. L., of Fairymead, Drummondville, 
Lower Canada. J. Bruce, Nurseryman, Hamilton, Canada West. 
The following gentlemen were elected Corresponding Members : — John Rich- 
ardson, Geological Survey, Montreal. P. L. Simmonds, King's College, London, 
England. John Lowe, M. D., M. R. C. S , England, King's Lynn. 
Letters were read from R. K. Greville, L L. D., Edinburgh, and John T. Syme, 
F. L. S., London, acknowledging their election as Honorary Members. 
Professor Lawson exhibited a collection of native and cultivated Plants made 
in South Carolina by Mrs. Noel, Kingston, containing a number of interesting spe- 
cies, such as Cassia nictitans, Gossypium herbaceum, Rhus copallina, Nicandra 
physaloides, Spigelia Marilandica, Nicotiana Tabacum, Impatiens Balsamina, Vexill- 
aria Virginiana, Phytolacca decandra, (Enothera biennis, Polygonum orientale. Con- 
volvulus Batatas, Capsicum annuum. Salvia obovata, &c. 
Dr. J. R. Dickson, Professor of Surgery, exhibited an interesting series of spe- 
cimens collected by Dr. W. E. G. C. Dickson, many years ago, during the Excur- 
sions of the University Botanical Class around Edinburgh, and including specimens 
of Oxy tropus campestris and other Clova plants from Prof. Balfour. Attention was 
directed to a frond of Polypodium vulgare, from Kinnordy, which was referable to 
the rather rare variety auritum of Moore. 
The following donations to the Society's Library were announced, viz: — 
McGillivray's Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Mr. Stanton. Prof Lawson's 
pamphlet on Botrydium granulatum, from the Author. The Secretary announced 
the presentation to the Society by one of the Fellows, Mr. B. Billings, Jr., Prescott, 
