468 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



Messrs. James Lang, 17 Stanhope Street, and Thomas W. 

 Robertson, 5 Whitehill Gardens, Dennistoun, were elected as 

 Ordinary Members, and Mr Alexander S. MacLean, Greenock, 

 was admitted as an Associate. 



Mr. A. Adie Dalglish exhibited Colias edusa, Fab., from 

 Stranraer, Wigtownshire, where it had been taken by his 

 brother on the 29th August ; Fupithecia helveticaria, Bdv., 

 from the banks of the Allander, Milngavie, one of its few 

 British localities ; Phihalapteryx lapidata, Hiib., which, until 

 recently, had been considered one of our rarest species of British 

 Lepidoptera, and has now occurred on the Lanarkshire, Kilsyth, 

 and Campsie Hills, and in several localities in Argyllshire ; 

 Hydrella %inca, Linn,, from Glenfalloch, where it had been 

 first found by him three years ago. The larva of the last- 

 named species feeds on Carex sylvatica, Huds. Mr. Dalglish 

 also exhibited Scopula decrepitalis, H.-S., which he has taken 

 in several localities on the Loch Goil and Arrochar hills, and 

 also in Glenfalloch. It occurs in the months of May and June, 

 and should be looked for at its food plant, Lastrea spinulosa, 

 Presl. 



Mr. Thos. Scott, F.L.S., Corresponding Member, read a paper 

 entitled "Notes on some Crustacea from Fairlie and Hunter- 

 ston." (See page 346.) 



Mr. R. Hedger Wallace's paper entitled " White Cattle : an 

 Inquiry into their Origin and History, Part 1b," was held as 

 read. (See page 403.) 



Mr. Robert Brown, M.D., read a paper entitled "Zermatt and 

 the Furka — Botanical Work amongst the High Alps." Zermatt, 

 Dr. Brown declares to be one of the most interesting and 

 fruitful fields that could be visited by a geologist or naturalist. 

 In 1898, to which his visit referred, the summer heat was late, 

 and the winter snows, even in August, lay deep in comparatively 

 low places, making it rather difficult to climb and cross 

 situations for work which were ordinarily easy to reach — but the 

 conditions obtaining brought some advantage, by the lateness in 

 flower of many attractive spring plants. Dr. Brown was anxious 

 to work the higher slopes, and he found that the most fruitful 

 area for collecting was between 7,000 and 10,000 feet in altitude. 

 Ilio plants which he exhibited to the meeting were nearly all 



