PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



SUMMER SESSION, 1886. 



THE SOCIETY'S ROOMS, 207 BATH STREET. 



11th May, 1880. 



Mr. Thomas King in the Chair. 



Mr. P. Cameron exhibited specimens of 15 species of British 

 and Foreign Hymenoptera, including representatives of the 

 genera Tenthredopsis, Mesostenus, Elis, Strumigenys, Aphano- 

 gaster, Aulacus, Cimbex, Monomorium, Cryptus, Leucopsis, 

 Mynnica, &c. Several of the insects were apparently new to 

 science. 



Mr. P. Ewing made some remarks on Alpine plants as affected 

 by cultivation, and exhibited a specimen of Draba rupestris, 

 Br., from Ben Lawers, which had for some time been grown 

 indoors as a pot-plant. Under this treatment it had shown a 

 considerable departure from its usual character, and was much 

 enlarged in every part. 



An exhibition of microscopic objects afterwards took place. 



25th May, 1886. 



Mr. Robert Turner, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. David Gregorson, F.E.I.S., reported on an excursion made 

 to the Port-Glasgow district on 22nd hist. After ascending 

 through Devol's Glen, the party proceeded over the hill side to 

 Greenock. Although many flowering-plants were observed 

 in the course of the excursion, none were discovered which 

 had not already been recorded for the district.* In referring 

 to the state of vegetation, Mr. Gregorson remarked that a large 

 proportion of the plants observed were only beginning to flower, 

 many being much later than usual. 



* See Proceedings, vol. i. (n.s.)j p. xxix. 



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