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"when dry, ovate oblong, terminating in long smooth reflexed 

 points formed by the excurrent nerves, which are red in the 

 substance of the leaves, margin slightly reflexed, not thickened, 

 but composed of two or three rows of narrower cells than those 

 of the rest of the pagina, seta long, stout, red, capsule red, 

 pendulous narrowly obconical, lid sharply conical, apiculate, deep 

 red, shining, allied to Bryum ohconicum. 



IV. Bryum hulUllosum (Montague). Description of this moss 

 in Miller's Synopsis agrees pretty well with the character of th& 

 New Zealand moss, and in the absence of any more definite 

 indications it has not been thought advisable to separate them. 



May 28th, 1872. 

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



SPECBIENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr James Thomson, of the Kelvingrove Museum, exlnbited an 

 unusually small specimen of the Glaucous Gull (Larus glaucus), which 

 was shot on Gourock Moor on 20th March last, and regarding which 

 Mr Gray stated that it appeared to be a bird of the second year's 

 plumage. The keeper who shot it had seen others in its company, 

 and though the Glaucous Gull had hitherto been regarded as a rare 

 British bird, it would in all probability be found to be a regular 

 winter visitant to the Firth of Clyde. Specimens had already 

 occurred in the island of Arran and on the coast of Ayrshire. The 

 birds were seen to be remarkably tame, but being in the incon- 

 spicuous plumage of the first or second year, they were generally 

 passed over as the young of some other species. They could, 

 however, be easily distinguished at any age by the absence of the 

 black tips to the wings and the bar across the tail. Mr Thomson 

 also exhibited a beautiful specimen of the Sclavonian Grebe 

 (Fodiceps cmiiuhis), from the island of Harris. This bird was in 

 full breeding plumage, and had been shot in the second week in 

 April. Mr Gray also exhibited a specimen of the same Grebe in a 

 similar state of plumage, from the island of North Uist, where it 

 had been shot about the end of April. 



Mr James Lumsden exhibited two young Woodcocks (Scolopaz 



