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no distant date the Society will be able to publish a larger and 

 more complete Fauna and Flora of Clydesdale. 



Proceedings of Nat. Hist. Soc. of Glasgow, Vol. III., Pt. I. (1876).— 

 Thi.s part embraces the period between Sep. 1875, ^"^^ April 1876, and 

 contains fifteen papers, all of which, with two exceptions, relate to Scottish 

 Zoology or Botany, and in the majority of ca.ses to Clydesdale, — a fact 

 which we are glad to be able to note. Besides the longer articles, there 

 are many .shorter notes, frequently of much interest, and often relating to 

 specimens exhibited at the meetings. The Society seems to be doing good 

 work, and we wish it all success. 



Transactions of Glasgow Soc. of Field Naturalists, Pt. IV. (1876).— 



This embraces about the same period of time as the above-mentioned. 

 The chief contents include : Descriptions of new British and Foreign 

 Lichens, by Dr. Stirton ; on the Prevention of self-fertilization in Plants, 

 by Mr. R. H. Paterson ; on the Microscope and Microscopic Illustrations, 

 by Mr. A. Schulze ; on the Migi-ation of Birds, by Mr. Allan, whose paper 

 contains a number of tables, showing the arrivals of various birds in various 

 years and in various localities, of which Glasgow does not appear to form 

 one ; on Dipterous Gall-makers and their Galls, by Mr. F. G. Binnie. 

 There are, besides, a number of notes of varying interest. On the whole 

 we think that, with the exception of what is devoted to the first (in part) 

 and last of these papers, the pages of this Part of the Society's Transactions 

 might have been better employed in records and observations on the local 

 natural history. Possibly the Society has spent its present energies in that 

 direction in the Clydesdale lists noticed on another page. 



Lists of the Coleoptera and Lepidoptera of Scotland. 

 — I shall be glad to receive notices of any additions, either in 

 species or in localities, to the parts of these lists already published, 

 as it is intended to take an early opportunity of publishing such 

 addenda.— F. BUCHANAN WHITE. 



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