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of the Proceedings, embracing the work of last Session, being 

 nearly through the press, will be in the hands of members by next 

 Meeting, and, as it contains many original papers, it will doubtless 

 be appreciated by the members. A beginning has been made with 

 the Catalogue of the Fauna of the West of Scotland, the first 

 portion of the Hymenoptera, by Mr. Peter Cameron, being 

 included in the part above referred to, while other lists are in 

 progress, for future issue. A series of nine excursions to places of 

 interest was arranged for the recess, and two of these, taken in 

 concert with the Geological Society in the early part of the season, 

 were well attended; but the others set down for the summer 

 months w r ere not successful so far as attendance went, the members 

 to a large extent being resident at the coast or in the country. 

 The last excursion of the series, on 31st August, was successfully 

 carried out, as there was a good attendance, and the day was fine 

 throughout, although previously the weather had been wet and 

 ungenial. The district chosen was Craigenglen, a small ravine or 

 glen of erosion, of about a quarter of a mile in extent, running 

 north and south along the southern slope of the south hill of 

 Campsie, and about a mile and a quarter north of the village of 

 Torrance. The glen has been long known to and often visited by 

 members of the Natural History Society and Geological Society of 

 Glasgow, on account of the abundance and variety of the Carboni- 

 ferous limestone fossils obtained from its strata, and from the 

 excellent state of preservation in which many of the specimens are 

 found. The strata here exposed belong to the lower limestone series, 

 and in the neighbourhood of the glen, as well as at other points 

 along the south hill, the limestone and coal of the Campsie and 

 Hurlet series were at one time extensively worked, both by open 

 cast quarries and by mining the strata into the hill ; but of recent 

 years little or nothing has been done in developing the mineral 

 wealth of the district. It is to be hoped, however, that the new 

 Kelvin Valley Railway, which passes through the village of 

 Torrance, little more than a mile south of the old workings, will 

 be the means of inducing the resumption of operations, as it will 

 afford an easier and cheaper method of transit to the centres 

 of industry than that by which the traffic was formerly carried on. 

 Besides the coal and limestone referred to, the clay-band 

 ironstone in the banks of Craigenglen was worked by mining in 

 the earlier years of the present century, and from the fossiliferous 



