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Galafhea Andrewsii — from the same locality, where it is found 

 plentifully. At same time, Mr Kobertson exhibited an annelid, 

 new to the British fauna — Clymene lumhricalis — from two different 

 localities in the West of Scotland. This gentleman, one of the 

 most successful investigators of our Scottish marine fauna, was 

 especially thanked by the President and Members for his valuable 

 contributions to the society transactions, and it was announced that 

 among the results of his recent observations many new and impor- 

 tant additions to the local lists would shortly be forthcoming. 



PAPERS READ. 



I. — On the remains of a Fossil Elephant found at Airdrie. 

 II. — On the occurrence of a rare cetacean — {Hyperoodon hidentatus) — in 

 the Gareloch. By Dr Scouler. 



January 26th, 1864. 



Mr Michael Connal, Vice-President, in the chair. The Rev. 

 Henry W. Crosskey was elected a resident member; and Tottenham 

 Lee, Bynya, Narandra, New South Wales, corresponding. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr Duncan C Brown exhibited a specimen of the pintail {Dafila 

 Caudacuta), from the River Cart, near Glasgow; and Dr Dewar 

 exhibited a bittern (Botaurus stellaris), shot recently in Possil marsh, 

 and a fine osprey (Pandion haliceetus), shot near Campsie. The 

 society's ornithological records are now believed to be very complete 

 as regards the West of Scotland — the additions of the past and 

 present session having been not only numerous, but of great value 

 and interest. 



Mr Thomas Chapman exhibited a miscellaneous collection of 

 insects from Porto Rico; and Mr John Young submitted to the 

 meeting a curious variety of the shore pipit (Anthus rupestri^), 

 from Islay, the bird being of a rich cream colour. 



Mr David Robertson exhibited specimens of Hippolyte securifrons, 

 a crustacean new to the Firth of Clyde, on which he made the 

 following remarks:— 



This species was first dredged by Mr Jeffreys and the Rev. Alf 

 M. Norman, in the summer of 1861, in seventy or eighty fathoms 

 of water, about sixty miles east of Shetland, and was briefly 

 described in a paper read at the Manchester Meeting of the British 



