NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 3 



also to the Mitchell Library, to the Paisley Free Library, to the 

 British Museum, and to the Kelvingrove (City) Museum. 



A Report was read by the Secretary for the Summer Session; nine 

 meetings having been held. Particulars were given of the subjects 

 which engaged attention, the chief being Cryptogamic Botany, in 

 view of the meeting to be held in Glasgow during autumn. There 

 had been 10 excursions to different interesting localities, and the 

 more notable specimens obtained were enumerated. 



The Reports were all unanimously approved of and adopted. 



The following gentlemen were appointed office-bearers for the 

 session — 



President — Professor John Young, M.I)., F.G.S.; Vice-Presidents 

 —John A. Harvie Brown, F.L.S., M.B.O.U., W. J. Milligan, and 

 John Kirsop; Secretaries — Robert Mason and John M. Campbell; 

 Treasurer — Robert J. Bennett; Librarian — Francis G. Binnie; 

 Members of Council — Arthur Pratt, Peter Cameron, James S. 

 Dixon, James Allan, James B. Murdoch, A. S. Wilson, M.A., B.Sc, 

 John Young, F.G.S., Thomas King, and Robert Turner. 



Edward R. Alston, F.L.S., F.G.S., &c, London, Thomas David- 

 son, F.R.S., F.G.S., &c, Brighton, Dr. L. de Koninck, Liege, 

 Belgium, Rev. John Stevenson, Glamis, Forfarshire, John 0. 

 AYestwood, M.A., F.L.S., &c, Professor of Zoology, Oxford, and 

 Professor Gustav Mayr, Vienna, were elected Honorary Members. 



Colonel J. S. Stirling, Rev. W. Williams, F.G.S., W. J. Sterland, 

 James R. Low, M.A., David Forsyth, M.A., and Robert Brydall 

 were elected Ordinary Members. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr. Peter Ewing exhibited a fine series of mounted marine algae 

 from the South of England, for the Cryptogamic exhibition held 

 lately in the City, which he had received from Mr. E. N. Holmes, 

 F.L.S. 



Mr. Thomas King showed a specimen of a fungus which he had 

 obtained at the recent exhibition in the Coal Exchange. He noticed 

 it beginning to expand, and having planted it, found the growth to 

 be nearly two inches in a single day. He had identified it as 

 Cynophalus caninus. 



Mr. James Mahony sent for exhibition a specimen of the Otter- 

 Pike, or Sting-fish, Tracliinus vipera (Cuv. and Val.), Avhich he 

 characterised as a most diabolical little fish. It strikes very accu- 



