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CONTENTS OF VOL. VIII.

PROCEEDINGS FOR NOVEMBER 1863.

The President's Opening Address

By WILLIAM RUTHER-

I. Notes on the Fertilisation of Orchids

FORD, M.D., President of the Royal Medical Society, Resident

Physician Royal Infirmary. (Being a portion of a thesis for which

a gold medal was awarded by the Medical Faculty of the University

of Edinburgh at the Graduation in 1863)....

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II. Synopsis of Canadian Ferns and Filicoid Plants. By GEORGE

LAWSON, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Chemistry and Natural His-

tory in Dalhousie College, Halifax, Nova Scotia......

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III. Notes on some New and Rare British Mosses, and on the

Occurrence of Trichomanes radicans in the Island of Arran,

Firth of Clyde. By Mr JOHN SADLER...

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PROCEEDINGS FOR DECEMBER 1863.

I. Notice of the Occurrence of Polypodium calcareum, near

Aberdeen. By Mr JAMES ROBERTSON....

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II. Account of the Vegetation of the Cliffs of Kilkee, County

Clare, Ireland. By N. B. WARD. Esq.......

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III. Notice of the Discovery of Fucus distichus, L., at Duggerna,

County Clare, Ireland. By Professor HARVEY...

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IV. Notice of the Occurrence of Sagina nivalis (Lindblom), on

Ben Lawers. By Professor BALFOUR....

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V. Remarks on the Sexual Changes in the Inflorescence of Zea

Mays. By Mr JOHN SCOTT .....

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VI. On the Cultivation of the Quiniferous Cinchona in British

Sikkim. By Dr THOMAS ANDERSON, Superintendent of the Botanic

Garden, Calcutta...

VII. On the Cultivation of Tea in India. By WILLIAM JAMESON,

Esq., Surgeon-Major, Superintendent of the Botanic Garden,

Saharunpore

VIII. On some Economic Plants of India. By Dr HUGH F. C.

CLEGHORN..

IX. On the Cultivation of Peruvian Cotton. By Dr ALEX.

HUNTER, Secretary of the Agri-Horticultural Society of Madras...........

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X. Extract of Letter from WILLIAM JAMESON, Esq., Surgeon-

Major, Saharunpore, to Professor BALFOUR, July 9, 1863......

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XI. Mr M'NAB's Report on Plants in Flower in the Botanic

Garden..

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PROCEEDINGS FOR JANUARY 1864.

I. New Researches on Hybridity in Plants. By M. CH. NAUDin.

Translated from the French, and communicated by Mr GEORge M.

LOWE....

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II. Letter from ROBERT BROWN, Esq., Botanist to the British

Columbia Association. Communicated by Professor BALFOUR.... 69

III. Extracts of Letters received from Mr WILLIAM MILNE, Old

Calabar. Communicated by Mr JOHN SADLER.......

71

IV. Extract from Letter from Dr MEREDITH, Georgetown,

Demerara, dated 21st November 1863, to Professor BALFOUR.........

V. Notice of Mosses found near Blair Athole, Perthshire. By

Miss M'INROY, of Lude. Communicated by Mr JOHN SADLER.

VI. Principal Plants of the Sutlej Valley, with Hill, Botanical,

and English Names; together with approximate Elevations and

Remarks. By Dr HUGH F. C. CLEGHORN....

VII. Letter from HENRY STEPHENS, Esq., to Professor BALFOUR,

regarding the Dry-rot Fungus....

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PROCEEDINGS FOR FEBRUARY 1864.

I. On Diplostemonous Flowers; with some Remarks upon the

Position of the Carpels in the Malvaceae. By ALEXANDER DICKSON,

M.D., Edin. (Plate I.).......

II. On the Cinchona Plantations in connection with the Botanical

Garden at Bath, Jamaica. By NATHANIEL WILSON, Curator of the

Garden. Communicated by Dr LAUDER LINDSAY..

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III. Notice of the Occurrence of Woodsia alpina (hyperborea)

in Gaspé, Canada East. By GEORGE LAWSON, LL.D., Professor

of Chemistry, Dalhousie College, Halifax, Nova Scotia....

108

IV. Remarks on Myrica cerifera, or Candleberry Myrtle. By

Professor LAWSON, Dalhousie College, Halifax..

108

V. Note on the Leaves of Ulex (Whin). By Professor LAWSON,

Halifax

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VI. Notice of Mosses found in the Neighbourhood of The Burn,

near Brechin, Forfarshire. By Mrs M'INROY. Communicated by

Mr JOHN SAdler..

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PROCEEDINGS FOR MARCH 1864.

I. New Researches on Hybridity in Plants. By M. CH. NAUDIN.

Translated from the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, by GEORGE

MAY LOWE, Esq........

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II. On the Chemical and Natural History of Lupuline. By M.

J. PERSONNE. Translated by GEORGE LAWSON, LL.D., Professor

of Chemistry in Dalhousie College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. (Plate II.) 131

III. Remarks on the Sexuality of the Higher Cryptogams, with

a Notice of a Hybrid Selaginella. By Mr JOHN SCOTT, Royal

Botanic Garden, Edinburgh..

IV. Abstract of a Paper on the Constitution of Gymnospermous

Flowers. By A. W. EICHLER. Communicated by Professor

BALFOUR...

V. List of Fossil Plants found in the Tertiary Strata of the

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South-East of France. By GASTON DE SAPORTA.

by Professor Balfour...

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VI. Notice of Plants at present in Flower in the Open Air at

the Royal Botanic Garden. By Mr M'NAB...

PROCEEDINGS FOR MARCH 1864.

I. On Fossil Plants. By Professor BALFOUR....

II. Notice of some of the Vegetable Productions shown in the

International Exhibition of 1862. By Professor ARCHER

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I. On the Fertilisation and Ripening of Seeds.

BECK NEVINS, M.D. (Lond.), Lecturer on Materia Medica, Liverpool

Royal Infirmary of Medicine. Communicated by DYCE DUCKWORTH,

M.D. (Edin.).......

II. On the Accessory Organs of the Hybrid Selaginella, referred

to by Mr John Scott, in a paper read before the Botanical Society,

10th March 1864. By CHARLES JEnner, Esq.......

III. Notes on the number of Stomata of some Indigenous and

Cultivated Plants in Belgium. By M. ED. MORREN. Translated

by G. M. Lowe, Esq....

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IV. Notes on the Isere (Physostigma venenosum) Moth. By

ARCHIBALD HEWAN, Esq., Surgeon. Communicated by Mr WILLIAM

RAMSAY M NAB....

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V. List of Plants in Flower in the Open Air at the Royal

Botanic Garden. By Mr M'NAB...

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PROCEEDINGS FOR MAY 1864.

I. Notice of Botanical Excursions in Autumn 1863. By Pro-

fessor BALFOUR....

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II. Notice of the Principal Plants growing in the Botanic Garden,

Brisbane, Queensland. Communicated by Mr JOHN Sadler

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III. Letter from Mr J. M'KAY, dated Madras, 28th January

1864, to Mr M'NAB......

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IV. Notice of the First Horticultural Show at Petermaritzburg,

Natal. By Mr G. M. Lowe......

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V. Notice of a New Variety of Athyrium Filix-fœmina. By

Mr JOHN SADLER.....

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VI. Notice of Additions to the Cryptogamic Flora of Edinburgh.

By Mr JOHN Sadler........

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VII. Notice of the present condition of the Plants which

Flowered in the Royal Botanic Garden in December 1863. By

Mr M'NAB, Curator

PROCEEDINGS FOR JUNE 1864.

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I. Recent Botanical Intelligence. By Professor BALFOUR........ 192

II. Remarks regarding the use of the Betel-nut. By Professor

ARCHER...

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III. Notice of New Station for Corallorrhiza innata, near Edin-

burgh. Communicated by Professor BALFOUR...

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IV. Letter from Mr WILLIAM BELL, Saharunpore, dated 17th

March 1864. Communicated by Professor BALFour..

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