TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS.

CONTENTS OF VOL. XII.

NOVEMBER 1873.

Opening Address by the President (JAMES M'NAB)

Biographical Notice of Professor Jameson of Quito. BY ISAAC ANDERSON-

HENRY, F.L.S. and F.R.S.E.

Obituary Notices........

Miscellaneous Communications

DECEMBER 1873.

I. Further Experiments with Darnel (Lolium temulentum). By ALEXANDER

STEPHEN WILSON...

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II. Remarks on the Old Trees in the Home Park at Hampton Court. By

JAMES M'NAB.

II. Note on a Station for Primula veris in Coldingham Bay, Berwickshire.

By Sir ROBERT CHRISTISON, Bart.

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III. Notes on a Visit to Messrs Dickson & Turnbull's Nurseries, Perth. By

JAMES M'NAB

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IV. On the Destruction of Seedling Ash-Trees by Frost in Mr P. S. Robert-

son's Nursery, near Edinburgh, in April 1873. By ALEXANDER BUCHAN,

F.R.S.E., Secretary of the Scottish Meteorological Society

V. Notice of Botanical Excursions in 1873. By Professor BALFOUR.....

VI. Report on the Open-Air Vegetation at the Royal Botanic Garden. By

JAMES MANAB

VII. Localities for some Species of British Fungi recently collected by Prof.

ALEXANDER DICKSON and J. SADLER...

VIII. Miscellaneous Communications

I. On a Diatomaceous Deposit in the district of Cromar, Aberdeenshire.

By Rev. G. DAVIDSON. Conimunicated by Professor DICKIE

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II. Botanical Excursions in the Neighbourhood of the Baths of Lucca during

the Summer of 1873. By JOHN F. DUTHIE...

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III. On the Fertilisation of the Cereals. By ALEXANDER STEPHEN WILSON

IV. The Lochwood Oaks in Annandale, Dumfriesshire. By JAMES M'NAB

V. Report on the Open-Air Vegetation at the Royal Botanic Garden, By

JAMES M'NAB, Curator.........

VI. Miscellaneous Communications

MARCH 1874.

I. Notice of a New Lepidodendroid Fossil from Devonside, Tillicoultry, with

Remarks on other Fossil Plants. By CHARLES W. PEACH, Á.L.S.

II. Climatal Changes in Scotland. By JAMES M'NAB, Curator, Royal

Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.

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III. On Tea Cultivation in India, &c.

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IV. Report on the Open-Air Vegetation at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edin-

burgh. By JAMES M'ÑAB, Curator

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V. Miscellaneous Communications.........

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