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found in this county by the late Mr WoUey, who writes in the 

 ''Zoologist" (1848, p. 2265) : — "I have to report the existence of 

 our recently ascertained Newt in the extreme north of the island. 

 On the 1st of Au2;ust I found several females and one male in a 

 little fresh-water peaty pool, a few hundred yards from the high- 

 water mark, on the side of the hills which rise from Loch Eriboll, 

 and on the west side of the loch. It is an inlet of the sea, about 

 sixteen miles to the east of Cape Wrath, on the north coast of 

 Sutherlandshire." We are not aware of the species having been 

 found in any other part of the North Highlands. 



The Librarian announced the following donations to the 

 Librarj'^: — The Practical Naturalist's Guide, by James Boyd 

 Davies, 1858; Hand-Book of Field Botany, by William F. 

 Steele, A.B, M.B., 1851; from Mr Walter Gait. 



SPECIAL MEETING. 

 NATURAL HISTORY CLASS ROOM, GLASGOW UNIVERSITY. 



February 21st, 1871. 

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



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Dr Young exhibited a number of recent additions to the 

 Hunterian Museum, including I. A collection of shells from Hong 

 Kong; II. Specimens of the Wart Hog, Phacochaerus aethiopicus; 



III. The Common Wolf, and other skins, recently mounted by 

 Mr Francis M'Culloch, Taxidermist, Sauchiehall Street; and 



IV. A collection of Kiltorchan fossils. Dr Young remarked that 

 the manipulation of the skins showed more than ordinary skill, as 

 every bone had been extracted from the specimens for the purpose 

 of makinsr skeletons. 



Mr Edward R. Alston, F.Z.S., exhibited the skull of the Pilot 

 Whale {GIoUcej)hah(s melas), from the Frith of Forth, and made 

 some observations on the occurrence of the species on the coasts 

 of Scotland. 



Mr Robert Gray exhibited specimens of the common Wild 



