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Breaking away from its point of attachment, any current in the 

 waters of the loch would tend to roll the mass about, and by thus 

 causing each part of its surface in turn to be acted upon with 

 tolerable uniformity by the light, varying both in direction and 

 intensity and by contact with the bottom, existing inequalities in 

 the surface would come to be averaged, and the figure approximate 

 to that or a sphere as in the specimen exhibited. 



Mr. Wilkie stated that, in a shallow bav in a disused clav-hole 

 in the vicinity of the city, he had often observed loosely 

 agglomerated spheres of the size of a marble formed in this 

 manner by an allied species which does not branch so freely in 

 a radial direction as does Clcidopliora cegagroinla^ Linn. 



Specimens of the genus Barbula, as constituted by Dr. Braith- 

 waite, and Dicranum capnodes, Stirton, a new moss from Ben 

 Vorlich, Loch Lomond, were exhibited by Mr. James Stirton, 

 M.D., F.F.P.S.G. 



Mr. R. D. Wilkie exhibited a young Lizard belonging to the 

 order Gekonidse, which had been captured in the warehouse of 

 Messrs. John MacLeish k Co, in this citv. 



Mr, Charles Kirk showed a number of photographs of birds' 

 nests taken on Ailsa Craig. 



Mr. S, M, Wellwood read a paper entitled " Observations on 

 some Morphological Abnormalities in the Tomato," and illustrated 

 his paper by specimens of the plants and diagrams. (See page 

 18L) 



Mr. J. Ballantyne read a paper entitled '• Occurrence of Sh-ex 

 gig as, Linn., in Bute and Arran." (See page 187.) 



30th ISTovember, 1897. 



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



Mr. William H, Lang, M,B., CM., B,Sc., 40 Laurence Street, 

 Dowanhill, was elected as an Ordinary Member, and Mr, Peter 

 Goodfellow, 2 Alexandra Parade Gardens, was admitted as an 

 Associate. 



The Hon, Editor (Mr. John Paterson) laid on the table Vol. 

 Y., Part I. (New Series), of the Transactions and Proceedings of the 

 Society, bringing the records to a point at 31st August last 

 (Session XLYL). 



