190 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



NOTES ON SOME CRUSTACEA FROM FAIRLIE AND HUNTERSTON, 

 FIRTH OF CLYDE. By Thomas Scott, F.L.S., etc. Trans. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. Glasg., vol. v. (N.S.) part iii., 1898-99, pp. 346-3 5 5 (March 

 1900). 



BRITISH AMPHIPODA : FAMILIES PONTOPOREID^: TO AMPELIS- 

 CID.E. By Canon Norman, M.A., etc. Ami. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (7), vol. v. pp. 326-346 (April 1900). A large number of Scottish 

 localities are given for the various species here treated of. 



ADDITIONAL RECORDS OF SPIDERS AND OTHER ARACHNIDS FROM 

 THE EDINBURGH DISTRICT. (Second Instalment.) By George H. 

 Carpenter, B.Sc., and William Evans, F.R.S.E. Proc. Roy. Phys. 

 Soc. Edin., vol. xiv. part ii. pp. 168-180. A list of twelve additional 

 species of Araneidea, two of Phalangidea, and two of Chernotidea ; 

 and additional localities for species already recorded. 



THE COLLEMBOLA AND THYSANURA OF THE EDINBURGH 



DISTRICT. By George H. Carpenter, B.Sc., and William Evans, 

 F.R.S.E. Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin., vol. xiv. part ii. pp. 221- 

 266, pis. v.-viii.- Includes fifty-nine species of Collembola, of 

 which seventeen are new to Great Britain, and four species of 

 Thysanura. 



CONODONTS FROM THE CARBONIFEROUS LIMESTONE STRATA OF 



THE WEST OF SCOTLAND. By John Smith. (With notes on the 

 Specimens, and Descriptions of Six New Species, by George Jennings 

 Hinde, Ph.D., F.G.S.), Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. G/asg., vol. v. (N.S.) 

 pi. iii., 1898-99, pp. 336-346, pis. ix. and x. (March 1900). 



BOTANY. 



POTAMOGETON RUTIDUS, WoLFG., IN BRITAIN. By Arthur 



Bennett, F.L.S. Joitrn. Bot., 1900, p. 65. Notes the first certain 

 occurrence (from Staffordshire) of this in Britain, and refers to 

 Mr. Bennett having what may be this from Orkney. 



SCHOZNUS FERRUGINEUS. By James Brebner. Joitrn. Bot., 

 1900, p. 87. Records that the species has disappeared from beside 

 Loch Tummel, where he discovered it, in plenty, in 1884 as an 

 addition to the British flora. 



AMBLYSTEGIUM COMPACTUM IN BRITAIN. By H. N. Dixon, 

 M.A., F.L.S. Jonrn. Bot., 1900, pp. 175-182. Treats fully of the 

 discovery and true nomenclature of a moss found, new to Britain, in 

 1899 by Mr. Dixon at Durness and near Inchnadamph, in Suther- 

 land, and states that it has proved to be A. compactum, C. M. Aust, 

 and identical with Brachythecium den stun, Juratz., of Europe. 



