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lanceolata, Sparganium simplex, and Bromas sterffis among flowering plants. 

 It is hardly necessary to mention that some of these are certainly not true 

 natives. 



Of mosses the following additions are recorded : — Sphagnum compactum, S. 



rubellum, S. subsecuudu/u, Phascum cuspidatum, Gymnostomum rupestre, 



Weissia controversa, Dicranella subulata, D. majzis, Fhyscomitrella patens, 



Polytrichum formosum, Crypheea heteromalla, Eurynchium piliferum, Hypnum 



stellatum, and H. sarmentosum. 



ABERDEEN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.— March 18th.— Mr 

 Tames Taylor read two papers, one on Selerotium durum, and some allied 

 forms, and the other, Notes on some plants found along the coast from 

 Aberdeen to the south of Stonehaven. The most interesting plant was 

 Erythrcea littoralis Fries, (recorded in Dickie's Botanist's Guide, under the 

 name E. linarifolia Pers., from one spot on the coast where it has for years 

 been extinct) rediscovered in a new locality. 



April 15th.— Mr. G. Sim read a paper entitled Twenty minutes on the 

 Aberdeen beach, the object of which was to explain the cause of faults and 

 unconformable beds observed in sandpits. Mr. S. Burnett read notes, chiefly 

 zoological, made during a trip by land and sea in 1878 round the north and 

 west coasts of Scotland, including visits to several islands off the coasts ; and 

 also notes recorded during visits to the south of England, the Channel Islands, 

 Brittany &c, chiefly respecting birds and the plants observed by him. 



The Society resolved to hold two excursions during the summer. 



EAST OF SCOTLAND UNION OF NATURALISTS' SOCIETIES.— 

 Space requires us to defer to the next number a report of the lir.-U annual meeting 

 of the Union, held at Dundee on Friday and Saturday, 6th and 7th June. 



SOIENTIPIO JOUENALS. 



ENTOMOLOGISTS' MONTHLY MAGAZINE [March).— "Agathidium 

 Rhinoceros, near Colinton," by Alfred Beaumont (a few taken on a patch 

 about twenty yards square). [April) "Additions to the Entomology of 

 the Isle of Harris," and "Captures in the Isle of Skye," both by C. W. 

 Dale. [May) "Notes on Tenthredinidse," by P. Cameron (describes two 

 new species of Nematus — viz., N. orbitalis and N. sylvestris. The larvae of 

 both feed on sallow ; the former is noted as taken in Cadder Wilderness, and 

 at Ballantrae, in Ayrshire ; the latter presumably is found in the same localities, 

 though no locality is mentioned). '' Description of a Variety of Philopo- 

 tamus montanus Don, from Scotland," by Kenneth J, Morton (the 

 variety is named Chrysopterus, and is described fully. The specimens (three 

 males) were taken South Lanarkshire). In all the three numbers, Mr. 

 Charles G. Barrett continues his " Notes on British Tortrices," in which 

 are found at times references to Scottish species. 



ZOOLOGIST [March) "Rough-legged Buzzard in Shetland," by T. 

 Edmondston, jun., believed to be the first record of its occurrence in the 

 Shetland Islands. " Waxwing in Shetland," shot last January at Norwich, 

 Unst. [April) At a meeting of the Zoological Society in London on March 

 4th, Mr. Howard Saunders exhibited and remarked on specimens of two gulls, 

 Xema Sabini and Larus Philadelphia, both in breeding plumage, and both 

 killed in Scotland. [June) " Capture of a White "Whale on the Coast of 

 Caithness," by Mr. J. E. Harting (noticed elsewhere in this Magazine). 



