No. XXXVI. OCTOBER 1879. 



THE 



SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



A QUARTERLY 



Edited by R BUCHANAN WHITE, M.D., 



CONTENTS. 



In Memoriam— Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, Bart, {c-^ith portrait), 



Zoology— 



The Mountain Lepidoptera of Britain : Their Distribution and its 



Causes [continued), — Editor, ....... 149 



Notes on Lepidoptera, — R. Renton, 160 



Phytology— 



Effects of the Past Winter and Present Summer on Hard-Wooded 



Plants, — Colonel Drummond Hay, CM. Z.S., . . . 162 



The Gaelic Names of Plants {continued), — ^J. Cameron, . . . 167 



Preliminary List of the Fungi of Perthshire, — Editor, . . . 173 



Geology— 

 The Auriferous Quartz of Wanlockhead, — W. Lauder Lindsay, 



M.D., F.R.S.E., F.L.S., 183 



Insecta Scotica — 



The Coleoptera of Scotland (^-^///m?/^^), — D. Sharp, M.B., . . 188 



WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH, 



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