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been recorded. Planorhis coinplanatiis is from the same locality as previously 

 noted — viz., Lochend Loch, Edinburgh, where it has probably now been 

 destroyed, as the loch is used as a receptacle for the town's refuse. 



**0n Uniformity of Method in recording Natural History Observations, 

 especially as regards Distribution and Migration," by Mr J. A. Harvie-Brown ; 

 *' Observations on the Study of the Phytophagous Hymenoptera," by Mr P. 

 Cameron ; and " Notes on a New Method of fixing Fronds of Carboniferous 

 Polyzoa on a layer of Asphalt, to show the Celluliferous Face, " by Mr J. Young, 

 are the titles of three of the papers, full of practical instruction, and likely 

 to be most useful. Mr Mahoney gives a chatty paper on the " Natural His- 

 tory and Archceology of Donegal ;" and ]\Ir J. Napier, amongst other anecdotes, 

 gives one of a dog which we cannot resist epitomising. A terrier, it seems, 

 was in the habit of taking any rat that he had killed into the house to show to 

 his mistress, who always ordered him out, but followed him with a reward in 

 the shape of a piece of oat-cake, which the dog ate, and then buried the rat 

 in the garden. One day, after he had been playing with his friend, a New- 

 foundland dog, the terrier was seen to go into the garden, dig up the rat that 

 had been last buried, take it into the house, get the usual r&ward, which he 

 shared with his companion, and then re-inter the rat. 



By the way, we notice that our friends in the west still seem to labour under 

 the illusion that Rannoch forms a part of Clydesdale. 



The Part is provided with a plate illustrative of Sulcoretepora Robcrtsoni, 

 Y. and Y., anew fossil polyzoan; and other new species described are the 

 Hymenopterous Blennocanipa alchemillce Cameron, and the Dipterous Ceci- 

 domyia cerastii Binnie, C. pilosellce Binnie, and C. quercus Binnie* 



ORYPTOaAMIO SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND. 



The Third Annual Conference was held at Dunkeld on October 17th- 19th, 

 and was successful in every way. Fungi were scarce, as they have been 

 everywhere ; but still there were enough to indicate what a rich field Dunkeld 

 would be in a more prolific season. A separate account of the meeting 

 has been already published, so we need .say no more but that the next Con- 

 ference will be held in Edinburgh about the beginning of next October, under 

 the presidency of Professor Balfour, and will no doubt be very successful. 



The Society is just about to publish a first fasciculus of Scottish Fungi, 

 containing 100 species, including many of the new and rare ones. 



