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Vol. IV.— Sept. 1878 to April 1880. 



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Accounts, Abstract Statement of, Session 1877-8, - - - 114 



Accounts, Abstract Statement of, Session 1878-9, .... 332 

 Adventitious Structures on Crinoid Stems, Notes and Observations 



of, by "A Corresponding Member," communicated by Mr. John 



Young, F.G.S. 3rd Paper, ... - - 73 



Albino Specimen of the Hedgehog, Erinaceus europaeus, the Earl of 



Haddington on an, 37 



Anderson, Mr. Thomas, of Girvan, Note on the Death of, - - - 122 

 Apiarian Observations during the successive Months of 187S, by Mr. 



R. J. Bennett, 10 



Apiarian Notes in Argyllshire for 1879, by Mr. B. J. Bennett, - - 193 

 Aporrhais pes-pellcani from Garvel Park, Cartsdyke, Mr. John Far- 



quhar on, - 199 



Apteryx owenii of New Zealand, and its Eggs, On. By Mr. John A. 



Harvie-Brown, F.Z.S., V.-P., 14 



Archaeology and Natural History of Tory Island, On the. By Mr. 



J. A. Mahony, Corresponding Member. (With two Plates, 



III. and IV.)," - 80 



Auk, Little {Mergulus alle), exhibited, 213 



Avondale, Notes on the Botany of. By Mr. E. Turner, - - - 120 



Barra Head and its Bird-Life. By Mr. George M'Lachlan, formerly 

 Lighthouse-keeper there, with Notes by Mr. John A. Harvie- 

 Brown, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., - - 2S0 



Birds of Buchan, Collected Notes on the. By Mr. William Horn, - 234 

 Birds of Iceland, On the. By Mr. George A. Burns, - 15 



Birds of the North-west of Perthshire, Notes on the. By Mr. 



William Horn, ---------- 54 



Bittern, Botaurus stellaris, exhibited, 37 



Boring Marine Alga penetrating the shell structure of a species of 

 Productus, Notes on the occurrence of a species of. By Mr. 

 John Young, F.G.S., - - - - - - - - - 77 



Botanical, Notes chiefly, of a Visit to the Island of Coll. By Mr. 



Thomas Scott, - 226 



Botany of Avondale, Notes on the. By Mr. E. Turner, - 120 



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