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ment view of the ornament. Fig 30 illnsti-ates the habit of the species, and 

 the diagram cross section below it shows the greater relative size of the reverse 

 face. Fig. 32 shows the ornament of the reverse. 



Figs. 33, 34. — G. laxa, nobis. 



Fig. 33 is from a worn, fig. 34 from a better pi-eserved specimen. The cell 

 apertiTre beside the latter figure shows perhaps the proper ornament of the 

 orifice when fully preserved. 



Figs. 25 and 26 are from specimens found at Capelrig, East Kilbride ; fig. 

 30 is from one found at Corrieburn, Campsie ; aU the rest are from specimens 

 found at Haii-myres, East Kilbride. 



NATURAL HISTORY CLASS ROOM, GLASGOW UNIVERSITY. 



30th March, 1875. 

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



SPECIMENS exhibited. 



Professor John Young exhibited a collection of birds from 

 the Society Islands, forwarded by the Rev, Dr Nisbet, and another 

 from the Cape of Good Hope, presented by Mr John Ross, student 

 of medicine. The intestines of a Wolf fish, recently purchased, was 

 found to contain a mass of dry macerated matter, which turned 

 out to be the plates and spines of star-fishes, sea urchins, and crabs, 

 on which the fish had lived. Mr John Young, F.G.S., had 

 mounted slides of these plates and spines, and showed them 

 under the microscope. The Kelvingrove Museum lent for 

 exhibition a stone-hammer from Stobcross, and one which had 

 been found at New Kilpatrick ; one was shown from the Hunterian 

 Museum, found at Cadder. Dr Young spoke of the great age of 

 these specimens, and referred to the way in which these hammers 

 had been pierced. Some stone net sinkers, were also shown, and 

 an iron axe head — also from the Clyde bed — the wooden shaft of 

 which had disappeared, while the oxidation of the head had bound 

 together a mass of sand and gravel, wliich had the exact shape of 

 the metal. 



Dr Knox exhibited and described an abnormal specimen of a 

 human foetus, in which the limbs were almost sessile on the trunk, 

 and took occasion to explain the relation of the limbs to the axis of 

 the body, in illustration of the remarks which he made at a former 



