PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



MTURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



SESSIOIsT 1875-76, 



THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL (GENERAL MEETING, ANDER- 

 SON'S UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS, SEPTEMBER 26th, 1875. 



. Professor John Young, M.D., F.E.S.E., President, in the chair. 



The Treasurer submitted his Annual Financial Statement, which 

 showed a balance in favour of the Society of £104 17s. Id. The 

 Secretary read the report of the Council on the business of last 

 session, and the Librarian reported on the state of the Library. 

 The reports were considered satisfactory. 



The following gentlemen were elected office-bearers for the 

 session : — Professor John Young M.D., F.RS.E., President; 

 James Stirton, M.D., F.L.S., James Eamsay, and Thomas Chap- 

 man, Vice-Presidents; Eobert Mason, Secretary; Thomas S. 

 Hutcheson, Treasurer; Peter Cameron, Librarian; J. Barclay 

 Murdoch, D. Corse Glen, F.G.S., Archibald Gilchrist, James 

 Coutts, Hugh M'Bean, John Kirsop, Donald Dewar, M.D., James 

 Lumsden, and Duncan M'Lellan, Members of Council. 



Messrs Stephen Cooke and Joseph Eobertson were elected 

 ordinary members of the Society. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Dr F. P. Flemyng, F.E.G.S., exhibited a fine specimen of the 

 Calamary or Squid {Loligo vulgaris), which had been thrown up on 

 the beach at Dunoon in March last. Dr Flemyng stated that this 

 species belongs to the family of cuttle-fishes, and is believed to be 

 the food of the porpoise, and remarked that it is not often met 

 with on the western, although frequently seen on the eastern 



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