NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 43 



October 28th, 1862. 



Hugh Colquhoun, M.D., Vice-President, in the chair. Mr Henry 

 Smith was elected a resident member. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr David Eobertson exhibited a new Entomostracan, and read 

 the following note: — This little entomostracan, as far as at present 

 known, is new to science. It was taken in the Paisley Canal, 

 in September, and has been provisionally named by the Eev. 

 Alfred Merle Norman, Lynceus pedenatus. 



Tliere is one particular connected with this little animal that 

 may be worth noticing. In the gathering that they were found in 

 there might be about a dozen. Suspecting that they were 

 strangers, I went next day to the same place to procure more, 

 but on examining over the gathering, I had not one. Day after day 

 I searched diligently for them, but as yet without seeing another. 

 Had I at first got but one, I would have had less hope in 

 finding another, believing them to be rare and sohtary animals; 

 but they must have been in abundance at the place and the time 

 that I got them, which leads me to infer that their sudden dis- 

 appearance is connected with their natural habits.* 



Mr Eobert Gray exhibited a very fine specimen of the golden 

 ■ eagle, wliicli was recently shot in Glencoe; also a specimen of the 

 ring-necked loon, or great northern diver {Colijmbus gladalis), in 

 the brilliant summer plumage, from Benbecula. Examples in 

 tliis state are rarely met with on our shores, as it is a species 

 which is not known to breed in any part of Britain. Mr Gray 

 thought it possible that in some of the Hebrides it might be 

 found incubating, as many birds remained near these islands tiU 

 the first week of June, a season when all other species had been 

 some time at their breeding stations. It would appear, however, 

 to be much later in retiring, as a body, than the usual summer 

 migrants to colder latitudes, being found Hngering around the 

 extremities of Scotland generally until the end of May. 



In the Firth of Forth it is usually seen in winter following the 

 herrings, of which it destroys great quantities. In foUowuig such 



* This crustacean is now (1868) named Anchistropm emarginatus by Heir G. 

 0. Sars, who has found it in Norway, but as yet these are the only habitats 

 known. 



