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COLEOPTERA AT INNERLEITHEN IN PEEBLESSHIRE. T. Hudson 



Beare. Ent. Mo. Mag. (February 1903), p. 39. Forty-seven 

 species are referred to. 



NOTES ON COLEOPTERA TAKEN IN WIGTOWNSHIRE. J. G. 

 Gordon, F.E.S. Ent. Record (February 1903), pp. 46-49. A long 

 list of species taken in the neighbourhood of Corsemalzie. 



APHODIUS TESSULATUS, PAYK. T. Hudson Beare, F.E.S. 

 Ent. Record, January 1903, pp. 17-18, and March 1903, p. 76. 

 Refers to the capture of this species on Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh. 



ABDERA TRIGUTTATA, GYLL. James E. Black. Ent. Record 

 (January 1903), p. 17. One example taken at Newtonmore, Inver- 

 ness-shire, on loth September 1902. 



COCCINELLA II-PUNCTATA, VAR. BREVIFASCIATA, WEISE. T. 



Hudson Beare, F.E.S. Ent. Record (February 1903), p. 49. 

 Refers to specimens taken on the Culbin sandhills on the Moray 

 coast, and on the sandhills at Machrihanish Bay, in the Mull of 

 Kintyre. 



PSECTRA DIPTERA, BURM., IN SCOTLAND. Bertram M'Gowan. 

 Ent. Mo. Mag. (January 1903), p. 14. A male captured on the 

 banks of the Nith, between Kingholm and Kelton, on 2gth July 

 1902. This is the first Scottish and third British specimen re- 

 corded. 



BOTANY. 



OBITUARY NOTICE OF THE LATE CHARLES STUART, M.D. By 

 Commander F. M. Norman, R.N. Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. 1902, pp. 

 191-194. 



NOTES FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY (of 

 Edinburgh) ON ITS ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PRIVILEGES. By Sym- 

 ington Grieve. Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. 1902, pp. 194-220. 



THE TRACK OF HEREDITY IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS. By J. 

 Beard, D.Sc. Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. 1902, pp. 126-155. An 

 important discussion of " the broad and obvious bearings of certain " 

 (of the author's) "results, relating to the history of germ-cells, on the 

 general problem of heredity." 



FUNCTIONAL INERTIA A PROPERTY OF PROTOPLASM. By David 

 F. Harris, B.Sc., M.D. Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. 1902, pp. 169-178. 



THE LATENT LIFE OF PLANTS. By R. A. Robertson, M.A., B.Sc. 

 (Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. 1902, pp. 178-191). 



HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE GRAPE VINE. By J. Leslie. 

 Part II. Culture. Trans. Perth. Soc. Nat. Sci. III. pp. 184-190. 



A BOTANICAL SURVEY OF SCOTLAND. By William G. Smith, 

 B.Sc., Ph.D. Scot. Geogr. Mag. 1902, pp. 132-139; read at the 



