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Professor John Cleland, M.D., F.R.S., Glasgow University, gave 

 a long and interesting address on a collection of Human Skulls from 

 India. He dwelt upon the form and arrangement of the different 

 parts of the crania, and pointed out the characteristics of the several 

 specimens exhibited. At the close the chairman proposed a special 

 vote of thanks to Professor Cleland, which was cordially agreed to. 



THE SOCIETY'S ROOMS, 207 BATH STREET, 

 January 25th, 1881. 



Mr John A. Harvie-Brown, F.R.S.E., &c, Vice-President, in the 

 Chair. 



Messrs. John Neilson, yr. of Drimsynie, Robert M'Lellan and T. 

 J. Henderson, were elected ordinary members. 



PAPERS READ. 



I. — Remarks on the genus Synocladia and other allied forms, with 

 description of a new species. By Mr. John Young, F.G.S. 



The genus Synocladia was established by Prof. King of Galway, 

 in 1849, for the reception of a Permian species of polyzoa which 

 previously had been named Retepora virgidacea by Phillips, in 1829, 

 and afterwards Fenestella virgulacea by the same author, in 1844. 

 Prof. King in erecting this polyzoon into a new genus, pointed out 

 wherein it differed from the typical Fenestella and other allied forms 

 of palaeozoic polyzoa, and gives the following diagnosis at p. 39 of 

 his Monograph of Permian Fossils: — "A funnel-shaped, multi- 

 foliaceous Synocladia, springing from a small root. Foliations more 

 or less folded and convoluted. Stems somewhat strong, often divid- 

 ing. Celhdes in from three to five furrows. Dividing ridges with 

 the (?) gemmuliferous vesicles alternating with the cellule-apertures. 

 Branches or connecting processes in general angulated midway 

 between two adjoining stems ; furnished, for the most part, with 

 two rows of cellules; and occasionally becoming modified into 

 stems or ribs." 



Prof. King further states, that this beautiful coral, as the polyzoa 

 were then termed, is often found attaining a large size, and that he 

 is not aware of the existence of any other species but the one under 



