296 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



Lord Kelvin was a member of this Society, and continued to 

 take an interest in its welfare and work. 



On the motion of the chairman, it was resolved that 

 the Society should place upon record its deep regret 

 at the announcement of the death of Lord Kelvin, and 

 express its appreciation of his great services in the 

 advancement of physical science, and the many and lasting 

 benefits which his brilliant discoveries have conferred upon 

 mankind. The Secretary was instructed to forward to Lady 

 Kelvin an excerpt from the minutes containing the above- 

 mentioned resolution, with an expression of the Society's 

 sympathy with her and the other relatives of the deceased peer 

 in the bereavement which they have sustained. 



Mr. James J. F. X. King, F.E.S., 1 Athole Gardens Terrace, 

 Kelvinside, was elected an Ordinary Member. 



Mr. D. M. Wood, 9 Main Street, Bridgeton, was elected an 

 Associate. 



Mr. John Smith, Corresponding Member, sent for exhibition 

 a specimen of the Cave Spider (Meta menardi, Latr.) from a 

 cavern in the neighbourhood of Dunure, Ayrshire. Its web 

 was placed a few feet above one of the cocoons or nests 

 characteristic of this species, which hung from a dark recess 

 in the upper part of the cave. There were also several old 

 nests, hanging in their original position. One of the spider's 

 webs in the cave measured fifteen inches in diameter, while 

 the extremities of the longest threads were four feet apart, 

 measuring over the web. 



The remainder of the evening was devoted to an exhibition 

 of lantern slides given by several members, and illustrative 

 of various features of natural history and geology, as well 

 as views of places visited at excursions of the Society. A 

 unique series of slides, showing the protective value of the 

 colour-markings of butterflies and moths, with regard to the 

 sites chosen by them for resting, was exhibited by favour of 

 Mr. A. H. Hamin, Oxford. Messrs. W. R. Baxter, Charles 

 Kirk, T. Thornton Mackeith, and Hugh W. Wilson, showed 

 fine slides, dealing mainly with various aspects of bird life, 

 while those submitted by Messrs. Thomas W. Robertson, J. W. 

 Reoch, and David R. Suniervillc dealt principally with 



