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The Scottish Naturalist. 



Miss Carnegy, Laverock Bank House, Trinity, exhibited a specimen of the 

 young cones of Araucaria imbricata, from Craigo. in Forfarshire. The tree is 

 now 29 feet high, 66 feet circumference of branches ; girth of stem at the sur- 

 face of the ground, 5 feet 8 inches ; and at 4 feet above the ground, 3 feet 2 

 inches in circumference. It is supposed that the Craigo Araucaria is the first to 

 produce cones in Scotland. 



Perthshire Society of Natural Science, 2nd March.— Dr. Buchanan 

 White, President, in the Chair.— This being the annual meeting of the 

 Society, the Secretary read the report of the Council for the session, 1870-71. 

 During the past session, thirty-two members had been added to the Society, ten 

 meetings had been held, eighteen papers had been read, and a number of excur- 

 sions made. The Treasurer gave a statement of the funds of the Society, from 

 which it appears that there was a balance of £7 6s 3d in the bank. The reports 

 were unanimously approved of by the meeting. Office-bearers having been 

 elected, 21 gentlemen were balloted for, and admitted members of the Society. 



6th April.— Dr. Buchanan White, President, in the Chair.— The Presi- 

 dent read a paper upon the Species of Hemiptera found in Perthshire. The 

 paper was illustrated by specimens and coloured figures. Mr. Robert Paton 

 read Notes upon the Tetraonidae occuring in the county, viz. — the Capercaillie, 

 Ptarmigan, Red Grouse, Black Grouse. The skins of two fine Capercaillies 

 were presented by Mr. Paton to the Society's Museum. 



4th May.— The President in the Chair. — Mr. Lamb presented a stuffed 

 specimen of a beautiful hybrid between the Capercaillie and Black Grouse : it 

 was shot in the neighbourhood of Perth. Dr. Buchanan White gave a lecture 

 on the Structure of Plants. 



