PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NATURAL HISTOEY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



siESsroisr 1S69-70. 



THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, ANDERSON'S 

 UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS, SEPTEMBER 28th, 1869. 



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



The Treasurer and Librarian submitted their Annual Reports, the 

 accounts of the former shewing a balance in favour of the Society 

 of £104 Os. 9-|-d. The following gentlemen were elected office- 

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

 sident; Professor Alexander Dickson, M.D., and David Robertson, 

 F.G.S., Vice-Presidents; Robert Gray, Secretary; Thomas S. 

 Hutcheson, Treasurer; James A. Mahony, Librarian; Hugh 

 Colquhoun, M.D., Rev. James E. Somerville, B.D., Robert Mason, 

 Thomas Chapman, James Stirton, M.D., John Alexander, Edward 

 R. Alston, F.Z.S., and George Thomson, Members of Council. 



Mr R. J. Bennett was elected a resident member. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr John Young, F.G.S., exhibited two specimens of a longicorn 

 beetle, Acanthocimis cedilis, captured under somewhat singular 

 circumstances. One was found last m^onth in Rosebank pit, near 

 Coatbridge, at a depth of 147 fathoms from the surface; the other 

 was taken in one of the railway carriages on the Greenock line 

 about a fortnight later. Both specimens have been presented to the 

 Hunterian Museum, — the first, by Dr George Buchanan, Glasgow ; 

 the second, by Mr Martin, Inspector of Poor, Kirkintilloch. This 

 beetle possesses the longest antennae of any known British species, 



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