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and water, reaching to a considerable depth. This, corroborated 

 by the finding of the canoe, shows that the present situation of 

 the Moor was formerly a loch, which has been silted up by 

 vegetation, the uppermost stratum being now perfectly firm, and 

 a portion of it drained and under cultivation. 



The Librarian announced the following donations to the 

 Libraiy : — Notes of a Week's Dredging on the West of Ireland, 

 and The Ostracoda and Foraminifera of Tidal Eivers, by G. S. 

 Brady, C.M.Z.S., and David Robertson, F.G.S., from the authors. 

 A List of Fresh Water Algee, collected in Northumberland and 

 Durham, and Notes on Entomostraca, taken chiefly in the North- 

 umberland and Durham District, by G. S. Brady, from the 

 author. 



SPECIAL MEETING. 

 NATURAL HISTORY CLASS ROOM, GLASGOW UNIVERSITY. 



December 19th, 1870. 



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



There was a good attendance of members, and Professors Allen 

 Thomson, Blackburn, and Veitch, were also present. The more 

 interesting among recent additions to the Hunterian Museum were 

 exhibited, including a part of the collection of birds from Central 

 India, given by Mr W. Ramsay, Bombay Civil Service ; a part of 

 the Mexican series collected by Dr Duge^s, and presented by Mr 

 Lachlan M'Gown, Consul at Guanajuato; and a group of sea birds 

 shot by a student of medicine on a voyage to Greenland. These 

 specimens, together with an Emu purchased from a menagerie, had 

 just come from the stuffer, M'CuUoch, on whose dexterity they 

 reflected credit. 



Mr R. Gray, the Secretary of the Society, commented on several 

 of the birds, especially those rarely found in Scotland, and 

 concluded his remarks by presenting to Dr Young, for the 

 Hunterian Museum, specimens of the Agldia striata, and other 

 birds. 



specbiens exhibited. 

 Dr Young described a new species of Carboniferous fish 

 {Palaeoniscus JFardi), which he had found in the cabinet of Mr 

 Ward of Lougton ; a new species of crustacean, belonging to the 



