NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. Ixxxvil 



His enthusiasm, as a naturalist, served to stimulate other 

 workers ; and his willingness to afford to others that assistance 

 which his extensive knowledge of Natural History enabled him 

 to bestow, secured for him the esteem of his fellow-members 

 in the Society. 



It is interesting to notice that his last appearance at the 

 meetings of the Society was on 25th September, 1883, when he 

 read a memorial notice of his friend, Mr. George J. Combe, 

 also a former member of the Glasgow Naturalists' Society. 



The following were elected Ordinary Members : Messrs. 

 Robert Maconechy, 64 St. Vincent Street; James Campbell, 1 

 Florentine Place, Hillhead; J. Steel Muir, M.D., Saracen Cross, 

 Possilpark ; George Butler, 189 Pitt Street ; and Frank Griffin, 

 Glasgow School of Art. 



The Secretary (Mr. D. A. Boyd) read a letter from Dr. 

 Alexander Hamilton Howe, of Hullerhirst, Stevenston, one of 

 the Members of the Society, intimating a donation to the 

 LiV)rary of a copy of Mr. George Gardner's Travels in the In- 

 terior of Brazil. The book was especially interesting and 

 valuable as the copy presented by the author to Sir Colin 

 Campbell, afterwards Lord Clyde. A cordial vote of thanks 

 was awarded to Dr. Howe for his kind gift. 



Mr. James Steel exhibited a collection of Gastropod Shells 

 from South Africa, including Laturls Balrstoicii, Sowerby, and 

 Crepldula lentUjlnosa, Sowerby, two recently described species ; 

 also a number of living specimens of Lniul-Shells from Spain, 

 Italy, and South Africa, which had survived the dangers of 

 transit and were apparently in a healthy condition. 



Mr. James J. F. X. King exhibited a specimen of AncJwmenus 

 Sahlbergi, Chaud., a Beetle new to the European Fauna. This, 

 and several other examples of the same insect, had been taken 

 on the banks of the River Clyde near Bowling, about thirty 

 years ago, by Mr. Thomas G. Bishop, one of the Members of 

 the Society ; but only recently the Beetles were discovered to 

 belong to the species named. 



Mr. King also showed specimens of Capnla nigra, Pict., from 

 Loch Earn (Perthshire), and Insh (Inverness-shire), and several 

 of the rarer Perlidce from these and other districts. 



Mr. D. A. Boyd made some remarks on the Moss-Flora of 

 the Calder Valley between Lochwinnoch and Muirshiel. The 

 River Calder rises on a stretch of high moorland, between 

 Largs and Port-Glasgow, and receives numerous small tributary 

 streams which descend from Hill of Stake (1711 feet). Misty Law 

 (1663 feet), and other hills of that range. In its descent, the 

 river passes through numerous moist rocky gorges ; and the 

 lower part of its course, known as the " Calder Glen," is 

 picturesquely wooded. This district, which was recently visited 



