II.-HERBARIUM.

BALFOUR, LIEUT. AND. F. Specimens of Sundry plants collected upon an island on the China seas during the cruise of H.M. Ship "Nassau." [Unfortunately destroyed by damp in transit.]

BALFOUR, DR BAYLEY. Sundry plants collected by Dr Buchanan during the Exploring voyage of the "Challenger."

BANCROFT, THOS. L. A large parcel of Australian Plants gathered in the Brisbane district, 1875-78.

BENNETT, A. Sundry rare S. E. England plants.

BLOW, T. BATES (per F. M. Webb). A fine series of Viola of the hirta and odorata group, from Herefordshire, with other critical English plants, and a few rare French species.

BRAND, WM. (Family of the late.) Mr Brand's Herbarium, consisting of an extensive collection of British Plants-the Scotch particularly valuable-and European plants gathered by Martin Barry, Ed. Forbes, &c.

BRIGGS, T. R. ARCHER.

Herbarium.

BROTHERSTON, ANDREW.

the Kelso district.

Sundry British Plants, desiderata to the

First instalment of a series of Willows of

BUMMER, MADAME. An extensive collection of Belgian Fungi. [Subsequently named by Dr M. C. Cooke.]

BUCHANAN JOHN. A collection of about 210 species of Phanerogams and Ferns gathered by him in the Shire Highlands, Central Africa, 1877-78, containing several new species. CARRINGTON, DR BENJ. Hepatica Britannica Exsiccatæ.

I. By B. Carrington and W. H. Pearson.

Fasc.

CHRISTISON, Dr DAVID. A beautiful set of specimens from Banda Oriental, illustrating his paper in the current Part of the "Transactions," and a collection of his gatherings in Buenos Ayres.

SIR ROBERT. Specimen of the Fortingall Yew, collected by the donor Sep. 1877.

COOKE, DR M. C. Fungi Exsiccati selecti. 25 species.
CHRISTIE, ALEX. CRAIG. Specimens of sundry, rare and critical
Scotch Plants. (Rosa involuta, Agrimonia odorata, &c.)
EVANS, W. W. Flowering Plants collected by Dr Crosbie of
the "Challenger" in Japan, and Cryptogamia from Juan
Fernandez, New Zealand, &c.

GROVES, H. and J. (per F. M. Webb). A parcel of Chara's,
Potamogeton's and other rare or critical S. England Plants.

HAY, Dr G. W. R. A nearly complete Flora of Aden, and a collection of Plants made during a military expedition to the country 60 m. W.N.W. of that place.

KEW HERBARIUM. Third instalment of the Robert Brown Herbarium. (Iter Aust. 1802-5).

A set of Rev. S. J. Whitmee's Samoan Plants.-Purchased.
A set of Fendler's Ferns of Trinidad.-Purchased.

LANGE, Prof. J. (of Copenhagen). A large collection illustrative of
the Flora of Denmark. Transmitted by Professor Balfour.
LINDSAY, Dr W. LAUDER. Seven species of Phanerogams gathered
in N. E. Iceland by Mr Thorvald Thoroddsen in 1876.
LOMAX, Mrs E. Specimens of Euphorbia Peplis from Penzance.
MACLAGAN, Dr PHILIP W. (of Berwick-on-Tweed). Mougeot and
Nestler's Stirpes Cryptogama Vogeso-Rhenanæ. Fasc. I.-X.
[Dr Geo. Johnston's copy.]

PARKER, C. E. A parcel of English Plants.

PLOWRIGHT, C. B. Sphæriacei Britannici Fasc. III.-Purchased. PRIOR, Dr R. C. ALEXANDER. An extensive collection of Neapolitan and Sicilian Plants, being the duplicates of the donor's collections in 1845; also a large series from Styria and Dalmatia, and small parcels of West Indian, Cape of Good Hope, and North American Plants.

RAVENEL, H. W. (per Dr M. C. Cooke). Fungi Americani. Cent. I. and II. (Purchased.)

Ross, GEO. Sundry interesting species from the Isle of Mull. SIBBALD, MISS. A large volume of specimens collected in South America and Australia.

SIM, JOHN. Sundry Fungi from the neighbourhood of Banchory,
Aberdeenshire.

SMITH, Wм. Specimens of several rare and critical Cheshire plants.
SOCIETÀ CRITTOGAMOLOGICA ITALIANA. Erbario Crittogamico Ital-
iano. Serie II. Fasc. XIV. No. 657-700. (Purchased.)
TAUSCHER, DR, J. A. Hungarian plants-500 species.
WEBB, F. M. Scotch Plants collected 1878.

WILSON, A. STEPHEN. Mounted specimens, with drawings and dissections of 21 species (16 genera) of ergotized British Grasses.

CHRISTISON, SIR ROBERT, Bart. Specimens of a sub-branch of a healthy willow, about a century old, cut down March 1878 in Moray Place Gardens, Edinburgh.

CLOETE, DR, Worcester, Cape of Good Hope. Fruit of Adansonia digitata.

CORREA DE MELLO, SENHOR JOAQUIM. Campinas, Brazil. Seeds of Physalis pubescens and seeds of an "ornamental Palm of moderate size."

DALZIEL MRS, 10 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. Box of Chinese Lychee fruit.

DICKSON, Dr F. K., Buxton. Fruit of Torreya Myristica, and Trapa bicorne,

GUNNING, DR. Stems of Jatropha Manihot, and fruit of a palm. HOYES, MRS. Fruit of Calotropis procerus

IVORY, JAMES. Queensland. Fruit of Luffa, grown from Egyptian seed.

JOHNSTONE, D. W. Root of Piper methystichum, called Kava. LABONTE, DR, Mauritius. Vanilla fruit. Hemp with Churrus, and specimens of a Potamogeton used for stuffing.

M'NAB; JAMES. Specimens of Dadalia quercince from oak tubs in the hot-houses at the Royal Botanic Garden.

MURRAY, Sir P. Threipland. Cone of Araucaria imbricata, ripened at Fingask Castle, Errol.

PATERSON, DR, Bridge of Allan. Twin fruit of vegetable marrow.. PATERSON, MRS, Union Street, Dundee. Fruit and Seeds of Paterson's Victoria Potato.

PEACH, C. W., 30 Haddington Place, Edinburgh. A beautiful mounted specimen of Sphenopteris affinis, from West Calder. SADLER, JOHN. Specimens of Agaricus Sadleri, (original specimens) from Royal Botanic Garden, Oct. 1877 and January 1878. (See Bot. Soc. Trans. Vol. XIII).

SCOTT, MRS. Montreal. Maple Sugar.

STEVEN, ROBERT, Colinton House, Colinton. Specimen of part of the trunk of a tree in which a number of iron nails were found embedded near the centre.

TWEEDDALE, Right Hon. The Marquis of, Yester House. Specimen of Lycoperdon giganteum

WHYTOCK AND REID, Messrs. Section of a log of Walnut in which are completely embedded several large stones, the log was received from the Mediterranean.

WILSON, A. STEPHEN, North Kinmundy. Samples of Meal, made from Egilops ovata. Spring rye, and red spring wheat. YOUNGER, ROBERT, St. Anns Brewery, Edinburgh. Sample of Barley Malt,

Patron:

HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

LIST OF MEMBERS,

Corrected to January 1879.

HONORARY FELLOWS.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G., Hon. F.R.S.E.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.H., K.T., LL.D., Edin.
HIS MAJESTY PEDRO II. EMPEROR OF BRAZIL, K.G.

HIS MAJESTY OSCAR II., KING OF SWEDEN.

BRITISH SUBJECTS (LIMITED TO SIX).

CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., Professor of Botany, Cambridge GEORGE BENTHAM, F.R.S., F. L.S., 25 Wilton Place, London, S. W.

Rev. MILES JOSEPH BERKELEY, M.A., F.L.S., Sibbertoft, Market Harborough

CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., LL. D. Cantab., F.R.S., IIon. F.R. S. E., F. L.S., Down, Beckenham, Kent GEORGE DICKIE, M.A., M.D., F. L.S., Aberdeen

Sir JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M.D., K.C.S.I., C. B., D.C.L. Oxon., LL.D. Cantab., Pres. R.S., F.L.S., F. G. S., Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew

FOREIGN (LIMITED TO TWENTY-FIVE).

JAKOB GEORG AGARDH, Professor of Botany, Lund, Sweden

HENRI BAILLON, M.D., Professor of Natural History to the Faculty of Medicine, Paris

ANTON DE BARY, Professor of Botany, Strassburg

ALEXANDER VON BUNGE, Emeritus Professor of Botany, Dorpat

FERDINAND COHN, M.A., Ph. D., Professor of Botany, Breslau

JOSEPH DECAISNE, Member of the Institute, Professor of Horticulture, Paris

ALPHONSE DE Candolle, D. C.L., Emeritus Professor of Botany, Geneva

AUGUST WILHELM EICHLER, Professor of Botany, Berlin.

HEINRICH ROBERT GOEPPERT, M.D., Director of the Botanic Garden, and Professor in the University of Breslau

ASA GRAY, M.D., Professor of Natural History in Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts AUGUST HEINRICH RUDOLPH GRISEBACH, Professor of Botany, Gottingen

OSWALD HEER, M.D., Professor of Botany, Zurich

CARL KOCH, Ph.D. Professor of Botany, Berlin

JOHANNES MARTIN LANGE, Professor of Botany, and Director of the Botanic Garden, Copenhagen.

CHARLES MARTINS, Professor of Natural History, and Director of the Botanic Garden, Montpellier EDOUARD MORREN, Professor of Botany, Liége, Belgium

BARON FERDINAND VON MUELLER, M.D., Comp. Ord. St Michael and St George, F. L. S., Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Garden, Melbourne

CARL NAEGELI, Ph.D., Professor of Botany, Director of the Botanic Garden, Munich

GUILLAUME NYLANDER, Ph.D., Paris

NATHAN PRINGSHEIM, M.D., Professor of Botany, Berlin

JULIUS SACHS, Ph.D., Professor of Botany, Wurzburg

WILHELM PHILLIPP SCHIMPER, Strassburg

MATTHIAS JACOB SCHLEIDEN, Dresden

Dr E. STRASBURGER, Professor of Botany, Jena

LOUIS RENE TULASNE, Member of the Institute, and Botanical Assistant in the Museum of Natural History, Paris

RESIDENT FELLOWS.

In the List of Resident Fellows are included some who are not resident in Edinburgh or its vicinity, but who pay Annual Contributions as Resident Fellows, or who have compounded as such.

Resident Fellows who have compounded for their Annual Subscriptions and Transactions are marked with an asterisk*.