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and William Stewart. Members of Council, — the Council being as 

 follows: President, James Stirton, M.D., F.R.C.S. Ed., F.L.S. ; 

 Vice-Presidents, Robert Turner, James Dairon, F.G.S., and 

 Thomas King; Secretaries, D. A. Boyd and R. Broom; Treasurer, 

 John Renwick; Librarian, James J. F. X. King; Members of 

 Council, William Stewart, John Kirsop, F.S.A. Scot., Richard 

 M'Kay, George R. Alexander, W. Craibe Angus, James Barrie 

 Low, M.A., A. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., Peter Ewing, and 

 James Steel. 



Messrs. W. J. Milligan and David Pearson were appointed 

 Auditors for the ensuing year. 



Messrs. Peter Cameron, Beech Road, Sale, Cheshire, and 

 Robert Kidston, F.G.S., 24 Victoria Place, Stirling, were elected 

 Corresponding Members. 



Mr. Thomas King, Vice-President, gave an account of the 

 recent meetings and excursions of the Cryptogamic Society of 

 Scotland at Aberdeen and district. He also exhibited some 

 Fungi collected by him at Dollar, which included the following 

 species : 



Agaricus (Tricholoma) co- A. (psalliota) campestris, L. 

 lumbeita, Fr. Hygrophorus coccineus, Fr. 



A. (Tricholoma) portentosus, Boletus variegatus Fr. 

 Fr. Hydnum repandum, L. 



A. (CUtopilus) prunulus, Helvetia crispa, Fr. 

 Scop. 



Mr. Thomas Scott, Corresponding Member, exhibited a beautiful 

 specimen of Pahnipes membranaceus, Retz., obtained near Skip- 

 ness, in September last, by Mr. Angus Johnstone, Tarbert, Loch 

 Fyne. In the course of some remarks, Mr. Scott stated that the 

 species is one of the most remarkable of the British Asteriadce, 

 being so thin as to have been mistaken more than once for the 

 " skin of a starfish," or the upper part of a starfish that had some- 

 how got torn off. It does not seem to be of very frequent occur- 

 rence in the West of Scotland, but according to Forbes (British 

 Starfishes) it is not regarded as uncommon off the Isle 

 of Man. It also appears to have a fairly wide distribution in 

 the British seas, having been recorded from the East, South, and 

 West of England, as well as from Ireland. With regard to its 

 distribution in the West of Scotland, it has been recorded from 

 the "Coast of Ayrshire," by Landsborough ; two or three times 

 from Girvan by Mr. Thomas Anderson, Corresponding Member ; * 

 and from Ettrick Bay, Bute, by Mrs. Mowbray. Mr. A. Somer- 

 ville, B.Sc, F.L.S., obtained two specimens— an adult and a 

 small one— in 1880, when dredging immediately beyond the 

 Maiden Isle in the Firth of Lome; and what makes this find 

 the more interesting is the fact that these were got on Melobesia 

 ground, whereas a muddy bottom is usually considered to be 



* See Proceedings, vol. i., p. 148; ii., pp. 6, 17. 



