330 Sherwood, Whitby Sidney, M. J. F., Cowpen, Morpeth Slack, Robert, M.D., Holywalk, Leamington Spasshatt, Samuel P., M.D., Armidale, Spruce, Richard, Ph.D., Welburn, York Steel, Gavin, of Carphin, Lanarkshire 340 Stevens, Rev. Charles Abbott, M. A., Goud- Stewart, Samuel A., 6 North St., Belfast Taylor, R. H., M.D., 1 Percy St., Liverpool Thomson, Spencer, M.D., Ashton, Torquay *Townsend, F., Shedfield Lodge, Fareham 350 Tyacke, N., M.D., Westgate, Chichester Vacy, Charles Kingford, M.D., Cornwall Valentine, Colin S., LL.D., Surgeon, Jeypore, Rajputana, India Vanderbyl, Philip J., 51 Porchester Ter- Vigor, A., Stonehouse, Cambridge Walker, V. E., Arno's Grove, Southgate, Wallich, George Charles, M.D., Kensing- Watson, Hewett Cottrell, Thames-Ditton, 360 White, Alfred, F.L. S., West Drayton White, Frank Isa, M.D., Perth Wilks, G. A. F., M. D., Woodburn, Torquay Wright, R. Ramsay, M.A., B.Sc., Professor 367 Young, Edward, Neath, South Wales LADY ASSOCIATES. Mrs Alexander, 7 Rosebery Crescent, Edin. Miss Agnes Carnegie, Edinburgh *Mrs Bain, 9 Napier Road, Edinburgh The Most Hon. the Marchioness Cornwallis 5 Mrs Scrymsoure Fothringham, Fothringham House, Forfarshire Miss Gage, Isle of Rathlin, Ballycastle *Miss Frances Hope, Wardie Lodge, Edin- Lady Kane, Raglan Road, Dublin 10 Mrs Michael Percival Miss Anna Maria Plowden FOREIGN AND CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. N.I. Andersson, Professor of Botany, Stock- John Erhart Areschoug, M.D., Professor Dr F. W. C. Areschoug, Professor of Dr P. Ascherson, Royal Herbarium, Berlin H. N. Bolander, Botanist to the Geolo- J. E. Bommer, Professor of Botany, Brussels 10 Dietrich Brandis, Ph.D., Inspector-General Henry Hunter Calvert, British Vice-Consul, Robert Caspary, Professor of Botany, and Casimir De Candolle, Geneva Rev. W. O. Cleave, LL.D., College House, 15 Baron de Castello de Paiva, M.D. Oporto J. F. Cheeseman, Museum, Auckland, Dominique Clos, M.D., Professor of Botany, François Crépin, Director of the Royal Hon. G. A. Cunningham, Mauritius 20 William Broughton Mavis, M.D., Surgeon- Dr Federico Delpino, Professor of Botany, F. W. Van Eeden, Director of the Colonial Franz Xavier Fieber, Chrudim, Bohemia 25 Dr A. Garcke, Royal Herbarium, Berlin Dr Gottsche, Altona, near Hamburg G. C. Grech-Delicata, M.D., Prof. Nat. M. Guthnick, Berne, Switzerland Dr Johannes Von Hanstein, Professor of 30 Theodore de Heldreich, Director of the Dr Fr. Hildebrand, Professor of Botany, Dr Hermann Hoffman, Prof. of Botany, James Africanus Beale Horton, M.D., 35 Edelstan Jardin, Cherbourg Dr Auguste le Jolis, Cherbourg Dr L. Jurányi, Prof. and Director of the George King, M.D., Superintendent 40 Albert Kölliker, M.D., Professor of Physiology, Würzburg Friedrich Traugott Kützing, M.D., Profes 45 Giuseppe Meneghini, M.D., Professor of Geology in the University, Pisa A. Millardet, Professor of Botany to the C. Naudin, Member of the Institute of 50 Charles Frider Nyman, Conservator of the Herbarium, Stockholm Dr C. A. J. A. Oudemans, Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanic Garden, Amsterdam Dr R. A. Philippi, Professor of Botany in the University of Santiago, Chili S. Louis Pisani, M.D., Malta J. E. Planchon, Sc.D., Director of the 55 Dr L. Rabenhorst, Meissen, Saxe Dr L. Radlkofer, Professor of Botany, Uni- Edouard de Regel, Director of the Imperial Dr H. G. Reichenbach, Prof. of Botany, Johannes Chr. Röper, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Botany Rostock, Mecklenburg 60 Dr Edouard Rostan, Perrero di Pinerolo, Piedmont C. S. Sargent, Superintendent Harvard J. L. Schaller, Fribourg, Switzerland Otto Wilhelm Sonder, Ph.D., Hamburg 65 Luis Sodiro, Professor of Botany, University of Quito, Ecuador W F. R. Suringar, Professor of Botany, Dr Nicolao Terracciano, Director of the 70 Professor Angustina Todaro, Palermo, Sicily Dr Maurice Willkommn, Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanic Garden, Prague, Bohemia ASSOCIATES. Bell, William, Markham Grant, Dehra Doon, Brotherston, A., Shedden Park Road, Kelso 5 Campbell, John, Ledaig, Argyllshire Buchanan, John, Blantyre, Shire Highlands, Central Africa Caird, Francis M., M. B., C. M., 16 Stafford Campbell, A., Station Agent, Burnt- Croall, Alexander, Smith Institute, Stirling 10 Dunn, Chas., 42 Triangle, Bristol Evans, William, Scottish Widows' Fund, St Gray, Peter, 35 Jeffries Road, Clapham Howie, Charles, Eden Cottage, Largo Jaffray, Andrew T., Darjeeling Societies and Universities to which the Society's Transactions are sent. Amsterdam, Royal Institution of Holland Belfast Naturalists' Field Club Boston (U.S.), Society of Natural History Brussels, Botanical Society of Belgium Edinburgh, Scottish Arboricultural Society Edinburgh, Government Library, Royal Botanic Edinburgh, Royal Society Edinburgh, Royal Medical Society Florence, Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiana, (Editors) Giessen, Natural History Society Glasgow, Natural History Society (Anderson's College) Glasgow, Philosophical Society Haarlem, Musée Teyler Harvard, University Library Königsberg Physico-Economical Society Leeds, Naturalists' Club and Scientific Assoc. 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Address, Inaugural, by Prof. Dickson, Agaric, on a new species, by John Alpine Flora of Ben Nevis, Inverness- Arboretum, Notice of the New, App. Ash-tree killed by lightning in 1874, Ayrton, Mrs Chaplin, Plants used in Balfour, Professor, on Dr Shapter's on various species of Jaborandi on localities for Brica vagans in Scotland, App. vi. Notice of the New Arboretum, Notice of a fungus found in Notice of Rheum palmatum Notes of a Continental Tour in on species of Rheum cultivated Notice of death of Mr M'Nab, App. ci. Notice of death of Dr Murchi- on flowering of Aloe vulgaris Cx. Balfour, Prof. Bayley, on Medicinal on the genus Halophila, 290. on Pandanus europhyllus, Balfour, Dr T. A. G., Presidential on the Effects of Soot on Presidential Address, 353. Barclay, Thos., Obituary Notice of, 6. Bennett, John Joseph, Obituary Birds and Berries, App. lix. Boswell, Dr J. T., on Hieracium Excursion in North Wales by Tour on Continent in August Boyd, W. B., Tour of Scottish Alpine Braun, Alexander, Obituary Notice Brongniart, Adolphe Theodore, Obitu- Brook, George, on the Salmon Disease on Weather of Winter of 1878- m Cordier, Dr François-Simon, Obituary Christison, Sir Robert, Bart., on Ex- Note relative to the Ash-tree on the Botanical Source of Craig, Sir William Gibson, Obituary Craig, Dr W., on Essential Oil of Dickson, Prof. Alexander, on the Inaugural Address, 447. Dunn, M., on the effects of Winter of Elder Tree (Sambucus nigra) grown Erica vagans, localities for, in Scot- Falconer, Dr John, on the Tsi-shu, Fossil Plants in Calciferous Sandstone France, C. S., on Mycelium of Fungi on effect of Winter of 1878-79 Fries, Professor, Obituary Notice of, Fuegia and South Patagonia, Vegeta- Fungus at Inverleith House, App. Gibson, Professor John, B. A., Obitu- Halophila, on genus, 290. Hepatica, New British, 46, App. xxii. Notes on Plants in British Hieracium Dewari, a New Species, 211. Hofmeister, Professor Wilhelm, F. B., Hollies, Fruitless State of, App. v. Fruiting of, App. xix. Hutchison, Robert, on Elder Tree Iceland, Flora of, by Dr L. Lindsay, 17. "Jaborandi", App. v. James, Henry L., M.D., Obituary Japanese Plants, used in New Year Kowhai, New Zealand, in Britain, Landsborough, Rev. David, Growth Library, Donations to, App. xxv, Lichens, Fossil, Dr Lauder Lindsay 17. New Zealand Kowhai, 125. MacIvor, William Graham, Obituary M'Nab, James, on the Open-Air Vege- on the Fruitless State of |