124 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



THE BDELLOID ROTIFERA OF THE FORTH AREA. James 

 Murray, Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin., vol. xvi., p. 5, pp. 215-229, 

 with plate. Records 53 species, one of them new to science, all 

 from material collected by Mr. W. Evans during 1905. 



A CATALOGUE OF LAND, FRESH-WATER, AND MARINE CRUS- 

 TACEA FOUND IN THE BASIN OF THE RlVER FORTH AND ITS 



ESTUARY. Thomas Scott, LL.D., F.L.S., etc. Part I., with map, 

 Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin., vol. xvi. p. 4, pp. 97-190. A very 

 useful paper. 



BOTANY. 



NOTES ON BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW IN THE 

 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. By Professor F. O. Bower, Sc.D., F.R.S. 

 Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, 1903-4 (N.S.), vii. pp. 121-136, 

 pis. 3 and 4. A series of extracts from the records of the University 

 from 4th July 1704 to i2th May 1818 relating to the Botanic 

 Garden, a short account by Professor Bower of results of his 

 investigations, and a " Syllabus of Lectures " by Professor Hamilton, 

 probably in the latter third of the century. 



METEOROLOGICAL NOTES AND REMARKS UPON THE WEATHER 

 DURING THE YEAR 1903, WITH ITS GENERAL EFFECTS UPON 

 VEGETATION. By James Whitton. Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, 

 1903-4 (N.S.), vii. pp. 154-169. 



REPORTS OF EXCURSIONS (of Natural History Society of Glasgow, 

 Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, 1903-4 (N.S.), vii. pp. 189-196) 

 to Cadzow, West Kilbride, Bute, Inverkip, and the Cloch, Castlemilk, 

 Heads of Ayr and Auchemade. Numerous fungi and a few other 

 plants are named as found, and dimensions of trees at Cadzow 

 are stated. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, 

 1903-4 (N.S.), vii. pp. 197-211. Various botanical notes, including 

 (p. 203) four Mycetozoa new to Clyde area from Strathblane and 

 Campsie Glen. 



A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE DOMINANT PHANEROGAMIC AND 

 HIGHER CRYPTOGAMIC FLORA OF AQUATIC HABIT IN THREE LAKE 

 AREAS OF SCOTLAND. By George West. Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., 

 xxv., 1905, pp. 967-1023, pis. 1-55, with 1 1 o photographs character- 

 istic of lochs in areas of Loch Ness, island of Lismore, and coast 

 from Nairn to Culbin Sands. A very important contribution to 

 the subject. 



FRENCH AND GERMAN VIEWS OF BRITISH RUBI. By W. Moyle 

 Rogers, F.L.S. and E. F. Linton, M.A. Joitrn. Bot., 1905, pp. 198- 

 205. Discusses the nomenclature employed by Dr. Focke in 

 Ascherson and Graebner's Synopsis der Mitteleuropaeischen Flora, 

 and should be consulted by all British students of Rubus. 



