NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 57 



SIESSIOZsT 187 0-7 X. 



THE NINETEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, ANDERSON'S 

 UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS, SEPTEMBER 27th, 1870. 



Professor John Young, M.D., F.G-.S., Presiclent, in the chair. 



The Treasurer and Librarian submitted their Annual Reports, 

 the statement of the former shewing a balance in favour of the 

 Society of <£77 10s. The follo^ying gentlemen were elected office- 

 bearers for the session: — Professor John Young, M.D., F.G.S., 

 President; Mr David Robertson, F.G.S., and Professor Alexander 

 Dickson, M.D., Vice-Presidents; Robert Gray, Secretary; Thomas 

 S. Hutcheson, Treasurer; Thomas Chapman, Librarian; Hugh 

 Colquhoun, M.D., James Stirton, M.D., Donald Dewar, M.D., 

 Edward R. Alston, F.Z.S., John Alexander, Robert Mason, James 

 Coutts, and William Sinclair, Members of Council. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr Gray exhibited a specimen of the Green Sandpiper (Totamis 

 ochropiis), from the banks of the Carron, in Stirlingshire, and a 

 specimen of the Little Stint {Tringa minuta), from Grangemouth, 

 both got recently and forwarded by Mr John A. Harvie Brown, 

 corresponding member. 



Mr Gray also exhibited a specimen of the Tree Sparrow {Passer 

 montanus), from Ardrossan, and read the following extracts from 

 a letter written by Mr John Jameson, of 87 Princes Street, 

 Ardrossan:- — "The nest from which this specimen was obtained 

 was under the cope-stone of a high wall, and contained four birds. 

 It was found in the evening by a lad, who brought three birds to 

 the writer, the fourth having flown away. The young birds were 

 all marked with black on the cheek exactly alike, and were much 

 less in size than the House Sparrow. It would seem that the Tree 

 Sparrow does not always build in trees, but sometimes nests along 

 with the Common Sparrow in houses." Mr Jameson also noticed 

 a Blue Tit (Pariis cceruleus), which he had observed during the 

 summer. In 1864 a specimen of this bird was exhibited to the 



