102 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETF OF GLASGOW. 



B. ife S. ; Swartzia montana, Lindl. (on roadside at Ardarroch) ; 

 Fissidens adiantoides, Hedw. ; Grimmia maritima, Turn. ; 

 Zygodon Mougeotii, B. and S. ; Breutelia arcaata, Schp. (fertile) 

 Hypnum exannulatum, Giimb. 



Proceeding's of the Society. 



SESSION 1905-1906. 



26th September, 1905. 



Mr. Peter Ewing, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



A report on an excursion to West Kilbride and Fairlie (p. S6) 

 was read. 



Mr. J. Bruce Hunter exhibited a specimen of the Globe Fish, 

 (Gymnodontes tetraodon, Linn.) from Port Said. Mr. Ptobert 

 Garry, B.Sc, exhibited under the microscope the following 

 algae, viz. : — Zygnosma stellinum, Vauch., in Zygospore, from Glen 

 Rosa, Arran, and (Edogonium (sp. 1) from Dairy and Balgray 

 Dam. Mr. Garry also exhibited many microphotographs of the 

 structure of these algae. 



Mr. R. S. Wishart, M.A., exhibited and described from Crail 

 Astragalus hypoglottis, Linn. ; Thalictrum minus, Linn. ; 

 Geranium sanguineum, Linn. ; Ligusticum scotioum, Linn. ; 

 Caucalis nodosa, Scop. ; Agrimonia odor ata, Mill., &c. 



Mr. Peter Ewing exhibited a number of alpine plants from the 

 mountains round Killin. 



Mr. R. Buchanan showed a series of the young of the 

 commoner species of Charadriidse in down. 



Mr. Wishart exhibited the Magpie Moth in its different stages, 

 and gave an account of the destruction done by this species on 

 the shrubs in his garden at Stepps, and of the ineffective attempts 

 he had made to stay its ravages. 



Mr. A. Patience read a paper on " The genus Idothea " (p. 42). 



