proceedings of the society. 141 



23rd February, 1897. 



Mr. Robert Kidston, F.R.S.K, F.G.S., President, in the 

 chair. 



Mr. Paul Rottenburg, Holmhurst, Dowanhill Gardens, was 

 elected as a Life Member. Messrs. C. F. Macdonald, 143 Watt 

 Street, and William Foulds Martin, L.D.S,, Braemar, Langside, 

 were elected as Ordinary Members. Messrs. Ranald W. 

 Macdonald, 70 Cambridge Drive, Kelrinside; John Stewart 

 Rogerson, 48 Windsor Terrace ; and John Tennant, 8 Hampden 

 Place, Mount Florida, were elected as Associates. 



Mr. William Stewart, Vice-President, exhibited the following 

 species of Fungi, collected by Mr. T>. A. Boyd, and sent by him 

 for exhibition, from Halkshill Glen, Largs : — Odontia Jimbriata, 

 Pers., Peziza coccinea, Jacq., and Corticium coeruleum, Fr. 



Colonel W. H. M. Duthie read a paper entitled "The 

 Wild Birds' Protection Act of 1894, and the Future of British 

 Oology " (see page 43). There was also exhibited, by lantern, a 

 large series of views of birds' nests and eggs and nesting sites, 

 from photographs taken from nature by Messrs. W. C. Monro and 

 G. Burn Murdoch. The pictures were greatly admired for their 

 beauty and variety, and appreciative remarks by Mr. William 

 Stewart, Vice-President, Colonel Harington-Stuart, and Mr. 

 David Andrew, followed. 



A paper by Mr. James Whitton, Superintendent of Parks, 

 Glasgow, entitled " Meteorological Notes and Remarks upon the 

 Weather during the year 1895, with its general effects upon 

 Vegetation," was held as read. 



The Hon. Secretaries intimated the deaths of Mr. Henry 

 Boswell, Oxford, Corresponding Member, and Messrs. Adam Knox 

 and Norman D. Napier, Ordinary Members. 



30th March, 1897. 



Mr. Robert Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., President, in the chair. 



Mr. D. A. Boyd read a memorial notice of the late Mr. David 

 Robertson, LL.D., F.L.S., F.G.S. (See page 18.) 



Mr. John Renwick referred to the loss the Society had sustained 

 through the death of Mr. C. O. Sonntag, Edinburgh, Correspond- 



