24 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Gammarus locusta. 

 Calliope loeviuscula. 

 Podocerus pelagicus. 

 No&nia excavata. 



ISOPODA. 



1. Ancev,s maxlllaris, - - male. 



2. - - female. 



3. - - young. 



4. Anceus (or Praniza), Edwardsii, female. 



PAPERS READ. 



I. — On Shell-mounds at the Macluir Grogary, in the Island of 

 South Uist. By Mr Jaimes A. Mahony. 



This paper was illustrated by a large collection of objects taken 

 from these mounds, consisting of bones of various animals, some 

 split, others drilled with holes, shells, pieces of rude pottery, stone 

 knives or scrapers, and other articles, showing the remains to be of 

 considerable antiquity. Professor Young spoke at some length in 

 comparing the Hebridean mounds with those of Caithness and 

 other parts of the Scottish mainland. 



II. — On the Sea Anemones of the shores of the Cumlraes. 

 By Mr David Eobertson, F.G.S. 



The importance of local lists, whether of plants or animals, is 

 daily becoming more widely recognised ; but the difficulty, in many 

 cases, of making these in some degree complete, can only be 

 appreciated by those who are engaged in such inquiries. We 

 cannot expect to find in every district, for example, an observer 

 specially devoted to each of the many obscure groups of marine 

 invertebrate fauna. And yet the time and labour required to 

 make a tolerably complete list of these, for any portion of our 

 sea-coast, would be very great. 



It may not be thought out of place, or without interest at 

 present, to offer a beginning of a list of the Sea Anemones incident- 

 ally picked up on my occasional explorations around the shores 

 of the Cumbraes. 



Large numbers of these animals are met with between high and 



