NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 11 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr David Robertson exhibited a large specimen of Polyporus 

 ignianus, from the island of Cumbrae, where it had been found by 

 Mr Levack, of Millport, one of the society's corresponding members. 



Mr Thomas Chapman exhibited a box of Lepidoptera, from 

 Calabar Eiver. 



PAPER READ. 



Notes on some of the Nudibninchiate Mollusca. 

 By Dr John Grieve. 



The author of this paper took occasion to refer to the successful 

 researches of Mr D. Robertson, in the Firth of Clyde, amongst 

 this interesting class of animals, and notified the occurrence of 

 two uncommon species dredged by that gentleman off Cumbrae, 

 viz., Hermia hifida and Triopa davigera. 



Before the close of business, it was announced that Messrs John 

 Black and Thomas S. Hutcheson had handed to the society up- 

 wards of one hundred volumes, as a donation from themselves 

 and other gentlemen connected with the society. The secretary 

 having read over the catalogue, the thanks of the society were 

 tendered to Messrs Black and Hutcheson for their special efforts 

 to secure the estabHshment of a library. 



February 26th, 1861. 

 John Scouler, M.D., LL.D., F.L.S., President, in the chair. 

 Mr James Ramsay was elected a member of the society. 



specimen exhibited, 

 Mr D. Robertson exhibited an unusually large specimen of 

 Hyas Coardatus, taken at Cumbrae. 



PAPER read. 



On the Organography of Animals. By Dr Scouler. 



The Secretary announced the following donation to the library : 

 — "Genera of British Moths." By H. Noel Humphreys, Pre- 

 sented by Dr Hugh Colquhoun. 



March 26th, 1861. 

 John Scouler, M.D., LL.D., F.L.S., President, in the chair. 

 Messrs Alexander M'Kinlay and WiUiam Sinclair were elected 

 members of the society. 



