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versation followed, in which Dr Dewar, Mr Thomson, Mr Gilmour, 

 and Mr Young took part. 



Professor Young exhibited a fine series of insects and rej^tiles, 

 sent home from Batavia, by Mr William Lorrain, whose father 

 (the late Dr Lorrain) had done so much good work in the natural 

 history of the same area. 



Mr James Thomson, of the Kelvingrove Museum, exhibited 

 specimens of several rare Scottish birds; these included a pair 

 of Pallas's Sand Grouse (Sijrrhaptes ]jaradoxus), and a Eoller 

 (Corracias garrula), from Aberdeenshire; also a beautiful specimen 

 of a hybrid between the Capercaillie and Black Grouse, from 

 Clackmannanshire. 



November 25th, 1871. 



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



Mr Eobert Wylie was elected a resident member. 



As this was the first meeting of the Society since the death of 

 Dr John Scouler, the President, in moving that the Society should 

 record its regret for the loss it had thereby sustained, said that 

 Dr Scouler's active interest in its proceedings commenced in 1851, 

 when he read a paper on the '' Sjmimetrical Differences of Plants 

 and Animals." He was at that time in office in Dublin, but was 

 unanimously elected Honorary President in 1853, having resigned 

 his Dublin lectureship and settled in Glasgow; he began his 

 regular attendance with a lecture on the " Natural History of the 

 Cephalopods." From that time until May, 1865, he had taken an 

 active part in all the business of the Society, exhibiting specimens, 

 demonstrating structural peculiarities, and discussing the general 

 questions wliich arose from time to time. Many, in fact, acquired 

 their first notions of comparative anatomy from him, and to his 

 influence was largely owing the scientific spirit in all the work 

 done. Dr Young said that though there was no one to whom the 

 formal expression of the Society's feelings would be matter of 

 perfect comfort or consolation, it was still the duty of every 

 earnest student to render acknowledgment to his benefactor. 

 Dr Scouler had survived wife and child, and the solitude of his 

 latter years and sad remembrances were doubtless not without , 

 efi'ect in hastening declining health. 



