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Plants in Flower on 1st Feb. 1874, Mr D. M'Lellan on, - - - 246 



Plants in Flower in Jan. 1874, Mr J. B. Murdoch on, - - - - 251 



Plant Remains, Fossil, from the Kilpatrick Hills, Mr John Young on, 196 



Plant Eemaius, Fossil, from the Kilpatrick Hills, Mr Coutts on, - 29 



Plants, Rare British, from the vicinity of Glasgow, Mr James Ramsay on, 3 



Plearobranchus plumula, Notes on, by Mr D. Robertson, _ _ . 32 



Phyllodoqe lamelli7igera, Mr D. Robertson on, ----- 342 



Polyzoa from the Arctic Shell-bed at Cartsdyke, Greenock, Mr John 



Young on, - - - - - - - - - - - 61, 67 



Polyzoa from the Carboniferous Limestone Shales, Mr John Young on, 244 



Polyzoa Carboniferous, Professor John Young on, - - - - 252 



Possil Marsh, Protection of, - - - - - - - -253 



Post-pliocene Clay from Norway, Mr D. Robertson on, - - - 176 

 Post-tertiary Fossils, Observations on a mode of identifying certain, by 



Mr D. Robertson, -.-__•---- 3 

 Powan, The {Petromyzon fluviatilis), and its mode of Preying on 



Coregonus clupeoides, by Mr D. Robertson, - - - - - 61 



Productus longispinus, Mr John Young on, - - - - - - 4 



Ptarmigan {Tetrao lagopus), Mr A. H. Dennistoun, jun., on the, - - 68 



Rail, AYater {Rallus aquaticus), Eggs of the, Mr Robert Gray on the, - 186 



Rail, Water, Eggs of the, Dr Dewar on the, ------ 253 



Razor-bill (Alca torda), Mortality amongst the, in the Winter of 1871-72, 



Mr James Lumsden on the, - - - - -- - -181 



Reindeer {Cervus tarandus), now extinct in the British Isles, On a 

 Specimen of the lower portion of the Horn of the, by Mr John 



Young, -.------•--- 5 



Rook, Malformation of the Bill of a, Mr Robert Gray on, - - - 17 



Sandpiper, Purple, {Tringa maritima), Mr J. A. Harvie-Erown on the, - 64 



Sandpipers from Lake Ontario, Mr T. M'llwraith of Hamilton, Ont., on, 196 

 Science -teaching, On the Improvement and Extension of, by 



Professor John Young, - - - - - - - -167 



Scouler, Dr, Professor John Young on the Death of, - - - - 175 



Sea Anemones of the Shores of the Cumbraes, On the, by Mr D. 



Robertson, -----------24 



Secretaryship of the Society, Resignation of the, by Mr Robert Gray, - 156 



Sheep, Four-horned, of St Kilda, Mr William Johnston on the, - - 194 

 Shell-mounds at the Machar Grogary, in South Uist, On, by Mr James 



A. Mahony, ----- 24 



Shell-mounds of the Outer Hebrides, Notes on the, by Mr Robert Gray, 64 



Shells and Corals from the Indian Ocean, Mr John Kirsop on, - - 259 

 Shells, Small, Recent Land and Fresh-water, from Hairmyres, East 



Kilbride, Mr D. Robertson and Mr John Y^'oung on, - - - 252 

 Shells, Parallel Forms found in Genera of, of various Degrees of Attinity, 



Professor John Young on,- - - - - - - -158 



