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CONTENTS OF VOL. VIII.

PROCEEDINGS FOR NOVEMBER 1863.

The President's Opening Address

I. Notes on the Fertilisation of Orchids. By WILLIAM RUTHER-

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.

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....

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.........

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

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

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

Garden......