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portions which had been preserved, after which Mr John Young, 

 F.G-.S., pointed out the horizon of the limestone in which they 

 occurred. 



Dr Young also exhibited a number of objects from the Hunterian 

 Museum, inchiding a collection of specimens showing reptilian 

 remains from the Lanarkshire coalfield. 



Mr James Thomson of the Kelvingrove Museum exhibited a 

 portion of the carapace of the Glyptodon, a gigantic edentate 

 animal from the Upper Tertiaries of South America, allied to the 

 armadilloes of the present day, a specimen of which was on the 

 table, and on which the chairman made some remarks. 



ANDERSON'S UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS. 



March 25th, 1873. 



Professor Alexander Dickson, M.D., Vice-President, in the chair. 

 Mr David Gemmell was elected a resident member. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr George E. Paterson exhibited a specimen of the Pink-footed 

 Goose (Anser Irachyrhynchus), from Kincardine-on-Forth. It 

 was remarked that in reality this bird was one of the rarest of the 

 British wild geese in Scotland, and that but little had been recorded 

 of its habits by recent writers from personal observation. Mr Eobert 

 Gray, F.E.S.E., observed that, until within the last eight or ten 

 years, ornithologists had accepted Macgillivray's statement, that 

 the Pink-footed Goose was a native of the Hebridean islands ; an 

 evident mistake, as subsequent observers have proved. He 

 believed that in the eastern counties of Scotland it might be found 

 to be a regular winter visitant in small numbers, but that records 

 of its appearance were still much wanted. 



Mr John Kirsop exhibited a large leg bone, which he had obtained 

 from Captain Aiken, Bowling, and which had been dredged from 

 the Clyde, near Erskine Ferry; also several red-deers' horns, from a 

 sandy deposit in the Clyde, near Dalmuir. Mr John Young, 

 F.G.S., stated that, in his opinion, the bone belonged to a large 

 example of the horse. 



Mr Robert Gray, F.R.S.E., exhibited two specimens in the flesh, 



