NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 145 



SZESSIOlsT 1866-67 



THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, ANDERSON'S 

 UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1866. 



Mr John Young in the chair. The following gentlemen were 

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

 LL.D., F.L.S., President; William Euing, Vice-President; Robert 

 Gray, Secretary; Thomas S. Hutcheson, Treasurer; James A. 

 Mahony, Librarian. Eev. Heniy W. Crosskey, Hugh Colqu- 

 houn, M.D.; James Stirton, M.D.; John Shaw, James Home, 

 David Robertson, Walter Gait, and W. Newton MacCartney, 

 Members of Council. 



Messrs James Barclay, and Archibald Robertson, Garelochhead, 

 were elected members. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Dr James Stirton exhibited sijecimens of Timmia Megapolitana — 

 a moss new to Britain — from Ben Lawers, with remarks on the 

 locality. Mr Arthur Sutherland exhibited a specimen of Blechnum 

 stridwm (a variety of Blechnum horeale) from Ross-shire; and Mr 

 Peter Clark mentioned having found the same plant in Dumbar- 

 tonshire four or five years ago. 



October 30th, 1866. 

 Mr W. Newton MacCartney in the chair. The following gentle- 

 men were elected members: — Messrs Alexander Donaldson and 

 John A. Craigie, resident ; Mr William P. Turnbull, Philadelphia, 

 corresponding. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED, 



Mr John Young exhibited some slabs of carboniferous shale 

 from the marine strata of Craigenglen, Campsie, containing 

 numerous specimens of an interesting bivalve shell of the genus 

 Pteronites. Being unable to identify it with any described species, 



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