NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 63 



Professor Young tlien delivered an opening address, after which 

 the Librarian announced the following donations to the Library : 

 Vargasia. Boletin de la Sociedad de Ciencias Fisicas y Naturales 

 de Caracas, numero 7, 1870, from -the Society. Proceedings of 

 the Perthshire Society of Natural Science for 1869-70, Perth, 

 1870, from the Society. Seventh Annual Report of the Belfast 

 Naturalists' Field Club, 1869-70. Opening Address of Professor 

 Wyville Thomson, M.D., Nov., 1869, Belfast, 1870, from the Club. 



NovejNIBER 29th, 1870. 



Mr Edward R Alston, F.Z.S., in the chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected members : — Messrs John 

 Barr, David More, C.E., James Allen Harker, and John Hopkins, 

 as resident members. Rev. H. Williamson, Mantchouria, and 

 Mr W. A. Dixon, Newcastle, New South Wales, as corresponding 

 members. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



The Chairman exhibited a specimen of the Barbastelle Bat 

 (Barhastellus communis) from Norfolk, and made some remarks on 

 the distribution of this species in Britain and on the Continent; 

 also a specimen of the Black Tern (Sterna fissipes), which had been 

 shot near Grangemouth, on the Firth of Forth, on 8th September 

 last, by Mr John A. Harvie Brown, corresponding member. This 

 bird was alone when seen, and is in the plumage of the first 

 autumn. Regarding its occurrence in Scotland, Mr Alston stated 

 that he had been informed by Mr Gray that specimens had been 

 obtained in the counties of Dumfries, Haddington, Berwick, Fife, 

 and Aberdeen. In the last-named shire one was shot in the 

 autumii of 1866, and another on the 30th April, 1867. 



Mr Gray said that he had seen it on Loch Lomond in full 

 breeding plumage in May, 1867, and again at Girvan in August, 

 1870. Five specimens were seen some years ago on Loch Fyne 

 by the late Mr James Hamilton of Minard. Upon the whole, he 

 was disposed to think that the species is a regular spring and 

 autumn visitant to our shores. 



The Secretary exhibited a specimen of the Red-necked Phalarope 

 (Phalarojms hyperboreus), a young bird in the plumage of the first 



