1 88 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



ON NEW AND RARE BRITISH SPIDERS. By Rev. O. Pickard- 

 Cambridge, M.A., F.R.S. Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist, and Antiq. Field 

 Club, vol. xxi. pp. 18-39 (1900). Records fourteen species taken 

 in Scotland by Mr. W. Evans, among them being, Sintula fausta 

 (from Lauder, not Glen Farg as stated at p. 22), S. nescia (from 

 Comrie), Gongylidium gibbum (from Comrie), and Evansia merens 

 (from Glen Farg) all new to science ; and Tapinocyba pallens, 

 Camb. (from Lanark) its first record as British. It should be 

 noted that the locality for Tmeticus reprobus, Camb., is given as 

 near Aberdeen instead of near Aberdour in Fife. 



ON A REMARKABLE VOLCANIC VENT OF TERTIARY AGE IN THE 

 ISLAND OF ARRAN, ENCLOSING MESOZOIC FOSSILIFEROUS ROCKS. 

 PART II. PAL^ONTOLOGICAL NOTES. By E. T. Newton, F.R.S., 

 F.G.S. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. Ivii. pt. ii. pp. 229-241, pi. 

 ix. (May 1901). Seven species are recorded from beds of Rhastic 

 age, about thirty from the Lower Lias, and nine from the Chalk. 



BOTANY. 



BRITISH BOTANY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. By W. A. 

 Clarke. Journ. Bot., 1901, pp. 128-140. Is a brief history of 

 progress. 



REPORTS OF EXCURSIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF GLASGOW 

 NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Session 1899-1900. Trans. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. Glasg., vi. pp. 158-179. Give measurements of trees of various 

 species at Bargany and Dalquharran in Ayrshire, at Dougalston, 

 and at Ross Priory ; lists of plants observed on Ben Lomond on 

 3oth June, and in Gallingad Glen and valley of the Glen Water 

 near Darvel on iSth August. In the Proceedings are enumerated 

 (p. 174) lichens from Dumbartonshire; (p. 178) Buda rupestris, 

 Vicia lutea, and Scilla verna from South Ayr ; and (p. i 79) Scutellaria 

 galericulata and Gentiana campestris from Arran, and Polyporus 

 varius and P. melanopus from near Symington. 



NOTES ON A CRUISE IN "CLYDE" WATERS IN JUNE 1900. By 

 John Paterson. Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg., vi. pp. 154-158. 

 Enumerates the plants observed on Sheep Island and Sanda. 



METEOROLOGICAL NOTES AND REMARKS UPON THE WEATHER 

 DURING THE YEAR 1899, WITH ITS GENERAL EFFECTS UPON VEGE- 

 TATION. By James Whitton, Superintendent of Parks, Glasgow. 

 Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg., vi. pp. 141-153. 



BRITISH HIERACIA. Journ. Bot., 1901, pp. 104-107. Is a 

 reprint of the notes issued with the sixth fascicle of the collection 

 prepared by the Messrs. Linton, in which are several endemic forms, 

 some of them from Scotland. 



