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the windows of Arden House, Dumbartonshire, and that large 

 pieces of the glass, which were exhibited, had been violently- 

 thrown to a distance of twenty feet inside the room. 



Notes on various Lepidoptera collected at Rannoch. 

 By Mr James King. 



Several interesting moths were included in the list furnished 

 by the writer of this paper. 



Note on the occurrence of the Eagle Owl {Bubo maximus) in Perthshire. 

 From Mr M'Lay, Inverness; communicated by Mr Gray, 

 F.H.S.E. 



This rare bird, of which only two or three examples have 

 occurred in Great Britain, was shot on 17th January last, in a 

 birch-wood on the banks of the Tummel, six miles above Pitlochry. 

 It measured five feet from tip to tip of its wings; the length, 

 from beak to extremity of tail feathers, being two feet. Mr Gray 

 took the opportunity of laying on the table, for the inspection of 

 the members, a specimen of this bird, the history of which 

 possessed unusual interest, having belonged originally to the 

 famous Audubon, and presented by him to the late Professor 

 Macgillivray, who mentions in his work " On the Rapacious Birds 

 of Great Britain," that it served him as a subject for description 

 and measurements. Having been kept alive for some time, it 

 was at length killed and skinned, as a cabinet specimen; and, 

 after passing into more than one collection, it had ultimately 

 found a resting-place in Mr Gray's own cabinet. 



SPECIAL MEETING. 

 NATURAL HISTORY CLASS ROOM, GLASGOW UNIVERSITY. 



March 11th, 1873. 

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



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Dr Young called attention to a series of specimens containing 

 the remains of Cladodus mirabiUs, a large sauroid fish, from Langside 

 quarry, Beith, and entered into an explanation of the different 



