NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOAV. IxXlX 



Glottlana, Flora Anomoia, &c., and founder of the Glasgow- 

 Royal Botanic Garden.* 



The following papers were read: — "On some Hynienoiotera 

 (chiefly undescribed) from Japan and the Pacific," by Mr. P. 

 Cameron ; t "A new species of Allantus [A. hreviventris, sp. n.) 

 from Salonica," by Mr. P. Cameron ; J "Notes on the Land 

 and Fresh -Water Molliisca of Greenock and the surrounding 

 district," by Mr. Thomas Scott, Corresponding Member. § All 

 the papers were illustrated with examples of the various species 

 described or referred to, Mr. Scott's being accompanied by a 

 complete collection. 



26th January, 1886. 



Mr. R. Turner, Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 The Chairman referred to the movement for providing a 

 Memorial for the late Mr. Roger Kennedy, and stated that the 

 Committee had arranged that the Memorial should take the 

 form of a marble bust to be placed in Anderson's College, 

 where Mr. Kennedy so long occupied the post of Lecturer on 

 Botany. Mr. Turner expressed the hope that the Members of 

 the Society would liberally respond to the invitation that had 

 been made for aid in carrying the movement to a successful 

 termination 



The Chairman exhibited Flowers and Cones of the American 

 Spruce Pine (Pinus variabilis), from Georgia, U.S.A.; also 

 stereoscopic view^s of woodland scenery in the same State, 

 showing the extraordinary profusion of Tillandsia which hangs 

 from the trees in the form of great matted festoons. 



The Secretary (Mr. D. A. Boyd) exhibited specimens of 

 Polygonnin viaritimum, L., recently gathered at Braunton, 

 North Devon, by Mr. W. B. Waterfall, Bristol ; and he referred 

 to the characteristic features of the plant, and the area of its 

 distribution. 



Mr. A. Somerville, B. Sc, F.L.S., presented to the Society a 

 copy of a new List of British Marine Shells, compiled by him 

 with the assistance of several eminent conchologists. After 

 some interesting remarks on the different types of shells borne 

 by various species in each of the seven great divisions of the 

 minimal kingdom, Mr. Somerville stated that w^hen studying the 

 marine Mollusca he had frequently felt the w^ant of a list which 

 w^ould be of use as a collection-catalogue, dredging-record, and 

 medium for marking exchanges. As no other convenient List 

 of the kind was in existence, he hoped that the one now 

 published would be foimd useful by other workers in Marine 



* Transactions, i. 259 ; Plate II. 

 t Id., i. 263. :;: Id., i. 277. § Id., i. 279. 



