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December 26th, 1865. 

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

 Mr James Dairon was elected a resident member. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr James Ramsay exhibited specimens of Trisetum flavescens 

 and Alopecurus agrestis, both gathered by himself in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of Glasgow during the past summer. He stated 

 that he had never before seen the former within ten miles of the 

 city. The latter he had observed in 1854 in great abundance on 

 the south bank of the Clyde, a short way above Eutherglen 

 Bridge, at a spot wliere the embankment had lately undergone 

 repair; that he had examined the place the season follomng, and 

 had found only one imperfect specimen. Since then he had failed 

 to find it — although he had searched for it every season — till the 

 past summer, when it again appeared in considerable quantity, 

 though not so plentiful as in 1854. 



Mr Ramsay likewise read the following list of plants that he had 

 found during one visit to the old filters of the Water Company, 

 beginning wdth those most common in the district: — Jasione 

 montana, Silene inflata, Anthyllis vulneraria, Myrrhis odorata, Trago- 

 jpogon pratensis, Reseda luteola, Potentilla reptans, Papaver Argemone, 

 Senecio viscosus, Echium vulgare, and Saponaria officinalis. All these, 

 he observed, were rare in the district, the two last named being 

 unknown for many miles round Glasgow. The only explanation 

 he could offer for so many rare plants being crowded into a space 

 so confined, was the probability of sand having been brought from 

 various and distant parts of the country to renew the filters when 

 the works were in operation. 



Dr Scouler exhibited specimens of Nicothoe astaci adhering to 

 the gills of a lobster, and made some remarks on its structure and 

 that of allied species. 



January 30th, 1866. 

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



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr David Robertson exhibited specimens of Bodotria longipes, 

 Norman, a species new to science, which he had secured in some 

 plenty around the Cumbraes, in the Kyles of Bute, etc. 



