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Britisli bird, and in all the published works on the ornithology of 

 this country, not more than perhaps a dozen British specimens 

 have been enumerated. Within the last six or eight years, how- 

 ever, Mr Gray had seen at least nine specimens that had been 

 captured north of the Tweed, and he thought the Shore Lark would 

 yet be found to be a tolerably regidar winter visitant to the eastern 

 shores of Scotland. 



Although the head quarters of this species might be said to 

 be North America, where it is widely distributed, from the 

 table land of Mexico to the Fur Countries, extending its range 

 as far as tlie shores of the Arctic Sea, it was doubtful if the 

 small flocks which reached Scotland came from that part of the 

 world. It had not indeed been satisfactorily settled whether the 

 Shore Lark of North America and that of European countries are 

 really identical. 



Mr Thomas Chapman exhibited two cases containing a number 

 of specimens of Ceratommpa regalis and eight other species of 

 interest, which had been brought alive to this country from North 

 America in February last. 



PAPERS READ. 



I. — 0)1 the claims of Nahiral History as a hranch of Education. 



By Mr Jajies W. Allan. 



Li this paper the author advocated the teaching of Zoology and 

 other branches of Natural History in schools, and also that they 

 should occupy a more important place in the curriculum of all 

 universities. At its close Professor Young made some lengthened 

 remarks bearing on the different aspects of the question. 



IL — On the introduction of the Wild Tiirhey {Meleagris gallipavo) into 

 Argyllshire. By Mr John Gilimour. 



The subject of acclimatization is one which interests nearly 

 every one, but more especially the members of a Society such as 

 this, and all the more when the object of that acclimatizing is one 

 likely to prove useful as well as ornamental. I shall therefore 

 take the liberty of reading a few remarks concerning " The Wild 

 Turkey of North America," as seen nearer home, namely, in 

 Argyllshire. 



In the summer of 18GG, a friend sent us three Wild Turkeys, one 



