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August 26th, 1879. 



Mr. Thomas King in the chair. 



Mr. M'Kay reported on the excursion to Eaglesham, where 

 little of interest had been found, except Polygonum minus. 



Mr. Turner moved that a committee be appointed to keep a 

 register of plants and their localities. The motion was agreed to. 

 Messrs. Turner, M'Kay, and King were then appointed as mem- 

 bers of the committee. 



Mr. P. Cameron then read an interesting paper on the "Evolu- 

 tion of the Hymenoptera with regard to Larval Coloration.'' 



23rd September, 1879. 



Mr. W. J. Milligan in the chair. 



Mr. Allan gave an account of the excursion to Campsie, which 

 was the last of the season. 



Mr. Crawford exhibited Trientalis europaea from Perthshire, 

 and Mr. M'Kay a branch of Evergreen Oak from Milngavie. 



Mr. J. J. King gave an account of a visit he had paid during 

 the summer to Hampshire, and exhibited some beautiful specimens 

 of Lepidoptera which he had captured there. 



Mr. Thomas King then read a paper on " Goethe's Essay on the 

 Metamorphosis of Plants,'"' published in 1790. An English trans- 

 lation of it appeared in Seeman's Journal of Botany, vol. i., 1863. 



The reports were all unanimously approved of. 



The election of office-bearers was then proceeded with, when 

 the following list for 1879-80 was unanimously agreed to: — 

 President — Professor John Young, M.D., F.G.S.; Vice-Presidents 

 — John Young, F.G.S., John A. Harvie-Brown, F.Z.S., and 

 W.J. Milligan; Secretary — Robert Mason; Treasurer — Robert J. 

 Bennett; Librarian — Henry C. Young; Members of Council — 

 Archibald Robertson, David Robertson, jun., Thomas King, John 

 M. Campbell, Arthur Pratt, John Kirsop, James B. Murdoch, 

 James Allan, and A. S. Wilson. 



Mr. John Farquhar, 352 South Wellington Street, was elected 

 an ordinary member. 



On the motion of Mr. James Coutts, it was agreed to enter on 



