CONTENTS. V 



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Notes on the Tipulidse of the Glasgow District, By George W. 



Ord, 190 



Report of a Visit to Sanda and Glunimore. By John Paterson 



and John Remvick. With a Plate [III.], - - - - 197 

 Note on Raspberry Roots. By G. F. Scott Elliot, M.A., B.Sc, 



F.L.S., F.R.G.S., andMrs. Fingland, - - - - 205 



Limits to the Range of Plant-Species. By G. F. Scott Elliot, 



M.A.,B.Sc.,F.L.S.,F.R.G.S., 208 



The Mosses of Campsie Glen : A Contribution towards a List of 

 Mosses of the West of Scotland, By James Murray and 



R. D. Wilkie, 217 



White Cattle : An Inquiry into their Origin and History. By 



R. Hedger Wallace. With four Plates [IV., V., VI., VIL], 220 

 Reports on Excursions — 



Lennox, - - - - 274 



Callander ; Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, 275 



Both well Castle ; Cadzow Forest, with a Plate [VIII.], - - 278 



Kelburne Castle, Fairlie, 280 



Botanic Gardens, 281 



Arddarroch ; Queen's Park ; Tullich Hill and Ben Reoch, - 282 



Auchincruive, 284 



Stonebyres, - - 285 



Rossdhu, - 286 



Proceedings— 



Report on Annual Conference of the Cryptogamic Society of 



Scotland, Kilmarnock. By William Stewart, - - - 287 

 Report of the Council on the Business of Session 1896-97, - - 288 

 Sabine's Gull [Xema sahinii (J. Sabine) ) from Arran, - - 289 



Cladophora cegagropila, Linn., from Lower Kildonan Loch, 



South Uist. By R. D. Wilkie, 290 



Renfrewshire Plants. By Peter Ewing, F.L.S. , - - - 292 

 Alpine (Swiss) Gentians. B}^ Robert Brown, M.D., - - - 292 

 Lepidozia cupressina (Sw,), Mastigophora Woodsii (Hook.), Nees, 

 and Hirhtrta adunca (Dicks.), Gray, from Moidart, Inver- 

 ness-shire. By Symers M. Macvicar, 294 



Coleoptera from Ailsa Craig. By Anderson Fergusson, - - 295 

 Past Distribution, Present Migration, and Dispersal of Species 



in Scotland. By J. A. Harvie-Brown, F. R. S. E. , F. Z. S. , &c. , 295 

 Lecture on " The Influence of Man on the Inhabitants of the 

 Ocean." By Professor W. C. M'Intosh, M.A., LL.D., 



F.R.S.,&c., 297 



Supposed Hybrid between the Black Grouse ( Tetrao tetrix, Linn. ) 

 and the Red Grouse [Lagopus scoticus, Lath. ). By Johnstone 



Macfie, M.D., 297 



Gift to the Library from the Glasgow Eastern Botanical 



Society, 299 



