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all who knew him. He died suddenly on 14th inst., at the early 

 age of 38, and was buried in Cathcart Cemetery. Among the 

 verses written by his literary friends on the occasion of this sad 

 event, the following by William Allan, of Sunderland, may fitly 

 conclude this short notice : 



" A kirkyaird lane, a grassy mound, 

 A mournfu' stane abune the ground ; 

 A dweller there gane thro' the door, 

 Nae fret, nae care — For evermore. 



" The grass will spririg, the flowrets come, 

 The win's will sing abune his home ; 

 ! happy spot, O ! gowden shore, 

 Whaur freens pairt not — For evermore. 



" His harp unstrung, nane will attune, 

 His sarjg is sung, his tale is dune ; 

 In silence deep, a' sorrow o'er, 

 Sweet poet! sleep— For evermore." 



Mr. D. A. Boyd exhibited specimens of Corophium longicorne, 

 Latr., an amphipod crustacean found in muddy pools of brackish 

 water on the sea-shore at Chapelton, West Kilbride. In the course 

 of some remarks, he referred to the great length of the lower 

 antennae, which resemble a pair of legs, and are used by the animal 

 for beating the surface of the mud on which it crawls in search of 

 food. During the summer months these creatures may be found in 

 abundance, but in autumn and winter they conceal themselves in 

 cylindrical holes burrowed in the mud. M. D'Orbigny, who has 

 studied the habits of these crustaceans, has remarked on the relent- 

 less warfare which they wage on annelids from ten to twenty times 

 their own size, and they have even been known to attack and 

 devour small fishes and molluscs. 



Mr. Boyd also showed specimens of Apthona car idea, Payk., a 

 small beetle found on the leaves of Iris Pseudacorus, L., in the 

 neighbourhood of West Kilbride. The insect appears to be rather 

 locally distributed, but is usually abundant where it occurs. 



Mr. R. Broom, B.Sc, exhibited a beautiful little echinoderm, 

 Kotula Rumphii, one of the Chjpeastrida, from Sierra Leone ; also 

 four species of Trunk-fish, viz., Ostracion gibbosus, L., from Bay of 

 Bengal, 0. concatenates, Bl., from Cape Colony, 0. cubitus, L. r 

 from Cape Colony, and 0. cornutus, L., from Aden. 



