BOTANICAL SOCIETY OP CANADA. 
177 
Tenth Meeting. 
FRIDAY EVENING, 10th JANUARY, 1862. 
The Very Rev. Principal Leitch, President, in the Chair. 
In opening the proceedings the Chairman stated that the first blank in the 
Society had been caused by the death of Colonel Jackson, of Portsmouth, near 
Kingston, who had been well known as the most Successful cultivator of culinary 
vegetables in this part of the country. 
The President also alluded in feeling terms to the lamented death of H. R. H. 
the Prince Consort, which had cast a gloom not upon England alone, but upon 
every English colony and every country in which science was pursued. 
The following new members were admitted, viz; 
Fellows— '^v S. D. Grasse, Mr John V. Noel. 
Members — Mrs Harper, Johnson Street; Mrs Maxwell Strange, Union Street ; 
Miss Logic, Queen Street ; Rev. K. Maclennau, Whitby ; James Gray, Esq., Banker, 
Picton, C. W. 
Corresponding Members — Dr. Ferdinand Cohn, Breslau ; Dr, Patterson, Leith ; 
Dr. W. H. Lowe, President Botanical Society of Edinburgh ; Dr. Eug. Fournier, 
Vice-Secretary, Botanical Society of France, 20 Rue Bonaparte a Paris ; Dr. Schultz 
Bipontinus, Hanover. 
The Secretary exhibited specimens of the remarkable fruit of Martynia pro- 
boscidea, from the garden of Thomas Briggs, Jr., Esq., and from Mr A. Bell, Perth. 
Professor Williamson stated that he had cultivated the plant successfully for 
many years. 
The following donations wei'e announced : 
From John Watkins, Esq., a donation of sixty dollars, to be applied to the 
improvement of the Botanic Garden. 
From Principal Dawson, Montreal, a collection of White Mountain Plants. 
From Mr B. Billings, Jr., Prescott, a collection of Flowering and Cryptogamic 
Plants, chiefly mosses. 
From Mr R. J. Holmes, F. B. S. C, for the Society's Library :— 1-2. The 
Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, Vols. 1. and II. 3. Strawberry Culture; by R. 
G. Pardee. 4-5. The Grape Vine, its Culture, Uses and History ; by G. W. John- 
son, 2 vols. 6. Studies in Animal Life ; by G. H. Lewes. 7. The Principles of 
Botany, by W. H. Willshire, M. D., M. B. S. London. 8. The American Hand- 
book of Ornamental Trees, by Thomas Meehan. 
The following papers were read : — 
1. Remarks on the mode of preparing Dissected Plants. By Professor Dickson, 
M. D. A very beautiful group of dissected specimens was exhibited from Mrs. 
Dickson, including some interesting species, such as Physalis Alkekenji, Datura, 
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