118 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



SESSIOIsT 1865-S6. 



THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, ANDERSON'S 

 UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS, SEPTEMBER 26th, 1865. 



Mr John Young in the chair. 



The following gentlemen were 



elected office-bearers for the session: — John Scouler, M.D., LL.D., 

 F.L.S., President; William Euing, Vice-President; Eobert Gray, 

 Secretary; Thomas S. Hutcheson, Treasurer and Librarian; 

 Matthew P. Bell, John Young, Alexander M'Kinlay, and Eev. 

 Henry W. Crosskey, Members of Council. 



October 31st, 1865. 



Jolin Scouler, M.D., LL.D., F.L.S., President, in the chair. 

 Mr Henry M 'Donald was elected a resident member. 



At this meeting it was agreed to increase the number of mem- 

 bers of council to eight — the names of the following gentlemen 

 being added to the list: — Dr Colquhoun, Dr James Stirton, Messrs 

 John Shaw, James Home, and David Eobertson. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr Alex. M'Kinlay exhibited specimens of Hahrodon Notarissi 

 from the neighbourhood of Killin, in Perthshire, where, during 

 a botanical excursion Avith Professor Schimper and others, in 

 July last, he had found it on trunks of trees, especially sycamores, 

 ash, and elms, extending over a wide area, and occurring in great 

 profusion. This rare moss had been found previously only in 

 Sardinia and in the south of Italy, and in but two locahties, 

 growing on olive and hoUy trees. It i)roperly belongs to the 

 region of the Mediterranean — the Meridional Zone of Schimper — 

 where, and in the north of Africa, its nearest allies, Anisodon and 

 Fahronia, are found. That region has a cryptogamic flora widely 

 different from that of the middle of Scotland, which resembles the 

 Scandinavian, and belongs, like it, to the third European Zone — 



