184 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



SESSIOJisT 1867-68. 



THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, ANDERSON'S 

 UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS, SEPTEMBER 24th, 1867. 



Mr William Euing in tlie chair. The follomng gentlemen 

 were elected office-bearers for the ensuing session : — Hugh 

 Colquhoun, M.D., President; William Euing, Professor John 

 Young, Vice-Presidents; Eobert Gray, Secretary; Thomas S. 

 Hutcheson, Treasurer; James A. Mahony, Librarian. John 

 Scouler, M.D., LL.D., F.L.S.; James Stirton, M.D.; Alexander 

 M'Kinlay, Walter Gait; W. Newiion MacCartney; Donald Dewar, 

 M.D.; E. A. Wiinsch; and David M'Kinlay, Members of Council. 



Messrs James Hamilton and David Hamilton were elected resi- 

 dent members. 



October 29th, 1867. 



Hugh Colquhoun, M.D., President, in the chair. The follow- 

 ing gentlemen were elected members : — Mr John Dougall, resident; 

 Messrs Alex. Innes Grant, Beaumont Station, Dunedin, Otago; 

 and John Buchanan, of the Government Geological Survey, Wel- 

 lington, N.Z., corresponding. 



The Librarian announced, as a donation to the library, a copy 

 of " The Birds of East Lothian," by Mr W. P. Turnbull, Phila- 

 delphia, one of the society's corresponding members. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



The Secretary drew the attention of the meeting to a Very fine 

 specimen of the rough-legged buzzard {Buteo lagopus), which had 

 been shot near Bishopbriggs during the present month; also a 

 specimen of the ruff (Machetes pwgnax), from the banks of the 

 Clyde, near Erskine. The latter species, although tolerably 

 common on the eastern shores of Scotland, is very rarely met 

 with on the west. Mr Gray remarked that the rough-legged 

 buzzard was also a much commoner bird on the east coast than 



