19^ The Scottish Naturalist. 



to various marine organisms (Crustacea and Mollusca) in East 

 Loch Tarbert and Loch Fyne. In Ornithological Notes 

 (PP- 379"393)> w - Craibe Angus writes on the occurrence, 

 habits, &c, of the Shore Lark (Alauda alpestris), the Caper- 

 caillie (Tetrao Urogallus), the Pintail Duck (Dafila acuta), the 

 Great Crested Grebe {Podiceps cristatus), and the Skua (Les- 

 tris catarractes). 



In the "Proceedings" (pp. liii-lxxxviii.) there are numerous brief 

 notes of much interest. The meetings extended over the period from 

 12th May, 1885, to 27th April, 1886. Among the more important 

 notes are the following : Reports of Excursions in 1885 to Barrhead 

 on 9th May, to Kilsyth Glen on 23d May, to Dairy on 6th June, to 

 Carluke on 20th June, to Thornliebank on 1st July, to Langbank on 

 8th August, to Largs on 2 2d August, and to Kilwinning on 5th Sept. 

 There are also reports of the results of excursions by individual mem 

 bers to Killin, Ben Lawers, the Outer Hebrides, and other localities. 

 Lists of Flowering Plants and of Cryptogams found in each excursion 

 are included in the reports ; and in several of them the insects and 

 other objects of interest are also mentioned. 



At the meetings during the winter 1885-86, besides the papers 

 noticed above as published in full, there were numerous short notices 

 and exhibitions of objects of interest from various parts of the world. 

 Those of Scotch objects included Camptothecium nitens from Killin ; 

 Q. lutescens Huds. in fruit from Ben Laoigh ; Drepanepteryx phalae- 

 noides L. from Cleghorn ; Fungi from Tillicoultry ; Mosses and 

 Lichens, exhibited by Dr. Stirton, to illustrate his Presidential Address 

 on the Glacial Period and its influences on the distribution of Crypto- 

 gamic plants ; Galathea strigosa L., Xantho florida Mont., and Piri- 

 mela denticulata Mont., from Mull and Gareloch ; numerous rare and 

 curious varieties of Lepidoptera from the Clydesdale district, shown by 

 Messrs. W. Watson and J. F. King ; Orobanche rubra from Eigg ; 

 Scutellaria minor from Loch Aylort, and Malaxis paludosa from Loch 

 Maree ; several species of Algae from Kyles of Bute, Kildonan, and 

 Helensburgh ; Leptaspidea brevipes B. and W., dredged in the Clyde, 

 near Greenock ; Alpine Phanerogams from the counties of Aberdeen 

 Forfar, and Perth ; Mosses in fruit from Perthshire and West Kil- 

 bride ; Anchomenus Sahlbergii Chaud., from near Bowling ; Capnia 

 nigra Pict., from Loch Earn, and from Insh in Inverness ; and vari- 

 ous Mosses from the Calder Valley. 



