No. XXXVII. JANUARY 1880. 



THE 



SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



A QUARTERLY /CW^^'^/ 



Edited by F. BUCHANAN WHITE, M.d\%^. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^' 



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CONTENTS. 



Page 



Geology — 



Changes of Climate in Post-Glacial Times,— J. Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S., 193 



Zoology — 



Iceland Falcon in Mid-Lothian, — David Douglas, .... 203 

 Collembola and Thysanura in Scotland in 1876, — L. & O. INI. Reuter, 204 



Phytology— 



The Club-root Fungus, — A. Stephen Wilson, .... 209 



Scottish Galls,— Professor J. W. H. Trail, M.A., M.D., F.L.S., . 213 



New and Rare Scottish Lichens, — Dr J. Stirton, F.L. S., . . . 217 

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



Flants {^-ouc/uded), — Colonel Drummond Hay, CM. Z.S., . 221 



The Gaelic Names of Plants {cojittmwd), — ^J. Cameron, . . . 228 



Unusual Blooming of the Hawthorn, — W. Bissett, .... 234 



New and Rare British Fungi, — Editor, 234 



New and Rare Fungi found at the Forres Meeting of the Cryptogamic 



Society of Scotland, — Rev. J. Stevenson, 234 



New Books, 235 



Various Notes, . 236 



Insecta Scotica— 



The Coleoptera of Scotland (£-^/;//;m<?fl^), — D. Sharp, M.B., . . 237 



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