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SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr John Young, F.G.S.jlaid upon the table a series of fossils from 

 the Silurian rocks of the Girvan valley, and remarked that while 

 looking over the large collection of specimens contained in the 

 cabinet of Mrs Eobert Gray, he had observed several interesting 

 fossils which had been collected during tlie past summer, and 

 wliich from their rarity and state of preservation, deserved to be 

 placed on record in the Society's Proceedings. The specimens 

 exhibited consisted, first, of a series of shells belonging to the 

 genus Bellerojihon, of which there were six species, including a 

 large example of B. dilatatus, a rare shell in the Girvan strata ; 

 second, several well-preserved specimens of Murchisonia obscura, 

 IlolojJella olsolcta, and Scalites angulatus, genera of shells of which 

 these several sjDecies are rare in the above mentioned strata ; 

 third, specimens of Lingida quadrata (Eichwald), a large species, 

 which Mr Davidson, in his recent work on the Silurian brachio- 

 poda, has identified with that found in Eussia, and which 

 Mrs Gray was the first to discover in the Girvan beds; also, 

 specimens of three other brachiopods, Orthis biforata, Rhynchonella 

 scdteri, and Orthis girvaniensis; fourth, two species of trilobites, new 

 to her collection, Acidaspis brightii, and another identified as belong- 

 ing to the genus Eccoptochile. Mr Young, in concluding his remarks, 

 stated that the cabinet of Silurian fossils at present being formed 

 by Mrs Gray, and which she was enriching from year to year, 

 testified to her great ability, perseverance, and powers of discrimi- 

 nation, and promised ere long to become the most complete collec- 

 tion with which he was acquainted of the early records of past 

 life entombed in the Silurian strata of Western Scotland. 



Mr James Thomson, of the Kelvingrove Museum, exhibited two 

 specimens, male and female, of the Hen-Harrier (Circus cijaneits), 

 shot last summer in Sutherlandshire, and showing an immature 

 state of plumage while the birds were breeding ; also a specimen 

 of the Little Bittern {Botanrus mimdus), which had been captured 

 in Aberdeenshire in October, 18GG. Mr Gray remarked, regarding 

 the last mentioned bird, that it was the second specimen exhibited 

 before the Society, the first liaving been forwarded about three 

 years ago by the Earl of Haddington, who procured it in East 

 Lothian. 



Mr Gray exhibited a specimen of Diard's Pheasant (Phasicmns 



