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I would take tliis opportunity of recording the following: — 

 Pisidmm cinereum, from a pond near Bisliopbriggs, and P. amnicum 

 from the banks of the Clyde above Rutherglen Bridge — not before 

 mentioned from the Glasgow district. 



A sinistral specimen oi Limneiis perecjer, from a small stream on 

 the banks of the Clyde above Dalmarnock Bridge. (In the fol- 

 lowing summer, 18G8, another specimen was taken there again.) 



Planwhis marginatiis, hitherto unknown in Scotland, from 

 Lochend, near Edinburgh. 



February 23d, 1869. 



Mr David Eobertson, Vice-President, in the chair. The fol- 

 lowing gentlemen were elected members of the Society: — Wm. 

 S. Paterson, resident] and George Stabler, Milnethorpe, West- 

 moreland, corresponding. 



The following donations to the library were then announced : — 

 Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club; Proceedings 

 of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Anti- 

 quarian Society; Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists' Field 

 Club — all from the respective societies. Also, " Memoire pour la 

 Connaissance de Crinoides Vivants, par M. Sars;" and "Meteoro- 

 logiske Jagtagelser," from the Christiania University. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr Henry Dunbar exhibited a series of American land and 

 fresh water shells, belonging to the genera Helix llelicina, 

 Bulimus, Conovulus, and Succinea, and made some remarks as to 

 their geographical range and distribution in the States. 



The Secretary exhibited a beautifully mottled specimen of the 

 Wood Pigeon, which had recently been obtained near Glasgow, 

 and forwarded by Mr Martin, Exchange Square. The whole of 

 the plumage was spotted with white, giving the bird a very 

 curious appearance. Such varieties very rarely occur in the 

 Eing Dove. 



Mr Gray also exhibited a female Sparrow-Hawk which had been 

 captured in the town of Dingwall, under somewhat peculiar 

 circumstances. The bird had apparently been perched on a tree 

 opposite the house of Mr Grigor there, and seeing a canary in a 

 cage suspended at one of the windows, had dashed through a pane 



