Xll PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



In the early part of the Summer Session the Library Cata- 

 logue was issued by the Committee. In this Catalogue is noted 

 all the books, pamphlets, &c., whether bound or unbound, con- 

 tained in the Library. 



Vol. v.. Part i., of the Society's Proceedings has been sent to 

 98 Societies, Institutions, and Magazines, from which, in most 

 cases, an adequate return has been received. 



Mr. D. A. Boyd, Summer Secretary, read a Report on the 

 Proceedings of the Summer Session. The usual number of 

 meetings and excursions had been held, many interesting 

 specimens having been exhibited and papers read. 



The Reports were all unanimously adopted. 



The Society then proceeded to the election of Office-bearers, 

 when Mr. Peter Cameron was elected a Vice-President, and 

 Messrs. R. Turner, D. A. Boyd, George R. Alexander, W. 

 J. Milligan, and D. Gregorson, Members of Council, — the Coun- 

 cil being as follows: President, John A. Harvie-Brown, F.Z.S., 

 F.R.S.E., &c. ; Vice-Presidents, Professor .Tohn Cleland, M.D., 

 F.R.S., Robert Mason, and Peter Cameron; Secretary, John M. 

 Campbell ; Treasurer, Robert J. Bennett ; Librarian, James J. 

 F. X. King; Members of Council, W. J. Milligan, D. Gregor- 

 son, M. C. Duff, J. B. Murdoch, F.S.A.Scot., Richard M'Kay, 

 Peter Ewing, R. Turner, D. A. Boyd, and George R. Alex- 

 ander. 



30th October, 1883. 



Mr. Peter Cameron, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. John Davies, 3 Park Terrace, Langside ; Patrick 

 Macfarlane, 70 Great Western Road, Hillhead; and Oswald 

 Fergus, 3 Elmbank Crescent, were elected Ordinary Members. 



The Chairman intimated that the Council had appointed Mr. 

 D. A. Boyd, who had acted as Secretary during last Sunnner 

 Session, to be Secretary of the Society in room of Mr. John M. 

 Campbell, resigned. 



Mr. Thomas King exhibited some Fungi, including Agariciis 

 phalloides, A. unhrlcatus, A. granulosus, Hygropliorus hyjjo- 

 thejits, H. cocchieus, H. j^vatensis, Canthavellns cibarlus, and 

 Peziza vesiculosa. He made some remarks on these species, 

 and exhibited xmder the microscope sections of Peziza vesiculosa, 

 showing the (tsci in which the spores are borne. 



The Chairman read a paper on "Zoology," in which he 

 referred at some length to the various departments of the 

 science, and described some interesting phenomena of animal 

 life. 



