NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 221 



SESSIOI^ 1873-7 4. 



TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, ANDERSON'S 

 UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS, SEPTEMBER 30th, 1873. 



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



Reports were received from the Treasurer and Librarian ; the 

 statement of the former showing a balance in favour of the 

 Society of £67 16s. 



The following gentlemen were elected office-bearers for the 

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

 James Ramsay, Professor Alexander Dickson, M.D., and James 

 Stirton,M.D., Vice-Presidents; Robert Mason, Secretary; Thomas 

 S. Hutcheson, Treasurer; Thomas Chapman, Librarian; James 

 Coutts, William Sinclair, John Alexander, Gavin Miller, Donald 

 Dewar, M.D., James S. Dixon, James Barclay Murdoch, Archibald 

 Gilchrist, and David Corse Glen, C.E., Members of Council. 



Messrs Robert Smith, James Cameron, and Thomas D. 

 Buchanan, M.D., were elected ordinary members. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr James Coutts exhibited specimens of columnar sandstone, 

 from the island of Bute, and explained its character and the 

 situation in which it was found, 



Mr Robert Gray, F.R.S.E., exhibited a specimen of the Nuthatch 

 {Sitta caesia, Wolf), killed in East Lothian, and pointed out, that 

 of late years it had been ascertained that the true Sitfa eiiropoea of 

 Linnaeus had not yet occurred in this country. He, therefore, 

 explained that it was of some consequence to identify correctly all 

 specimens of the Nuthatch killed in Scotland, as the bird originally 

 described by Linnaeus might yet be found in the Orkney and 

 Shetland islands, where straggling birds were known to occur at 

 uncertain intervals. 



Mr Gray also exhibited a specimen of the Stormy Petrel 

 (Thalassidronia jJelagica), captured last week near Gourock. 



