NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OE GLASGOW. xlv 



29tii November, 1887. 



Mr. Peter Ewing, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., High Street, Croydon, Surrey, 

 and Henry Bos well, 51 Woodstock Road, Oxford, were elected 

 Corresponding Members. 



Sir John Neilson Cuthbertson, 25 Blythswood Square, and Mr. 

 John Fowler, 4 Kelvinbank Terrace, Sandyford, were elected Life 

 Members. 



The following were elected Ordinary Members : Sir William 

 Collins, F.R.G.S., 3 Park Terrace, East ; Mr. James M'Call, 

 F.S. A. Scot., 6 St. John's Terrace, Hillhead ; Miss M. Henderson 

 17 Belhaven Terrace, Kelvinside ; Mr. Archibald J. M'Lellan, 

 5 Dowanvale Terrace, Partick ; Mr. W. M. T. Yuille, 15 Wood- 

 side Quadrant ; Mr. John Woodrow, Neilson Institution, Paisley ; 

 and Mr. James Barr, 55 East Howard Street. 



The Secretary announced that intimation had been made to the 

 Society of the death of Dr. Spencer Fullerton Baird, Secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution and Director of the United States 

 National Museum, which occurred on 19th August at Woods Holl, 

 Massachusetts. Mr. Boyd moved, and it was unanimously agreed, 

 that a notice should be recorded in the minutes expressing the regret 

 of the Society at the announcement of Dr. Baird's death, and their 



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deep sense of the loss which Science has sustained in the removal of 

 one who occupied so important a position in her ranks. Further, 

 that the Secretary should be instructed to transmit to the Board of 

 Regents of the Smithsonian Institution an excerpt from the minutes 

 containing a copy of the foregoing resolution. 



Mr. Henry M'Culloch exhibited a very fine example of the 

 Hoopoe, Upupa epops, L., in perfect plumage, from the neighbour- 

 hood of Campbeltown. He also showed a Grouse, Lagopus scoticus, 

 Lath., with abnormal markings, kindly lent by Mr. Allan Gilmour 

 of Eaglesham for exhibition to the Society. 



Mr. A. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., exhibited a specimen of the 

 Hoopoe shot by the Rev. J. E. Somerville, B.D., Corresponding 

 Member, at Thebes, in Egypt (lat. 38° 19' N.), in the cold season 

 of 1867. Mr. Somerville stated that he had also shot this bird 

 in winter quarters in Bengal, where in some parts it is not uncom- 

 mon during the months of December, January, and February ; and 



he had met with it in January, 1871, in latitude 28° 35' N. 



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