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SESSIOIsT 1868-6 9. 



THE SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 

 ANDERSON'S UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS, SEPT. 29th, 1868. 



Professor John Young in the chair. The following gentlemen 

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

 Colquhoun, M.D., President- Professor John Young, David 

 Eobertson, Vice-Presidents; Eobert Gvaj, Secretary; Thomas S. 

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

 Stirton, M.D.; John Grieve, M.D.; Tliomas Chapman, Edward 

 R. Alston, William Euing, Walter Gait, George Thomson, W. 

 N. MacCartney, Members of Council. 



PAPER READ. 



On the Present Character of Zoological Besearch. 

 By Professor John Young, M.D. 

 In this address, Dr Young explained the doctrine of Evolution 

 as at present understood, and the mode in which development and 

 genealogical succession are treated as synonymous. 



October 27th, 18G8. 

 Professor John Young, Vice-President, in the chair. Professor 

 Alexander Dickson, Glasgow University, and Mr Henry Dunbar, 

 were elected resident members. 



SPECIMENS exhibited. 



The Secretary exhibited a specimen of Leptcena Youngiana, of 



Davidson^a new Silurian brachiopod shell from the Girvan 



district. Three examples of this undescribed species had been 



collected during the past summer by Mrs Robert Gray, and 



submitted to Mr Davidson, of Brighton, who named it after Mr 



John Young, in consideration of the valuable aid received from 



him during his researches among the Pakeozoic Brachiopoda. 



Leptcena Yoimgiana is distinguished from others of the same genus 



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