192 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



S:ESSI0I<T 1872-7 3. 



TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, ANDERSON'S 

 UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS, SEPTEMBER 24th, 1872. 



Mr James Eamsay, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Reports were received from the Treasurer and Librarian; the 

 statement of the former shewing a balance in favour of the 

 Society of X51 Us. lOd. 



The following gentlemen were elected office-bearers for the 

 session: — Professor John Young, M.D., F.G.S., President; Pro- 

 fessor Alexander Dickson, M.D., and Mr James Ramsay, Vice- 

 Presidents ; Robert Mason, Secretary ; Thomas S. Hutcheson, 

 Treasurer; Thomas Chapman, Librarian; James Coutts, William 

 Sinclair, John Alexander, Robert Gray, Donald Dewar, M.D., 

 James S. Dixon, James B. Murdoch, and Gavin Miller, Members 

 of Council. 



Mr George E. Paterson was elected a resident member. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr Gray exhibited a specimen of the Blue throated Warbler 

 {Cyanecula suecica), which had been ca|)tured near Aberdeen on 

 IGth May last, and forwarded by Mr George Sim, of that city, 

 and made some remarks on the three different forms of that bird 

 — viz., the Motacilla suecica of Linnaeus, the C. cyanecula of Brehm, 

 and the Sylvia wolfi of Meyer — the first having a red spot in the 

 centre of the blue patch on the throat, the second a white spot, 

 and the third none at all. The bird exhibited had a red spot, 

 and was, therefore, a true suecica; but Mi Gray remarked, with 

 regard to the bird possessing the white spot, that it was necessary 

 in some cases to examine the plumage carefully, as that feature 

 could only be seen on pushing aside the blue feathers. Might not 

 these spots, therefore, in both instances be the results of age. 



Mr James Lumsden exhibited a specimen of the Pied Flycatcher 

 (Muscicapa atricapilla), which was shot at North Berwick on 23d 



