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that already mentioned on the " Mammals of Scotland," of which 

 our Society is the fortunate possessor.* There also are his papers 

 on " The Mammals of Asia Minor, from collections formed by Mr. 

 C. G. Danford (in 1877 and 1880)". 



To his personal qualifications and social attainments, his genial 

 smile and kindly disposition, and his keen and rapid sense of 

 humour, which, with many other graces, combined to make his 

 society so charming to all who knew him, and the knowledge of 

 which caused a deep sense of personal pain and loss to weigh more 

 and more heavily day by day upon his most dear and intimate 

 friends when they first heard of his alarming illness and then of 

 his death, more than an allusion cannot here be made; but 

 memories of many happy days passed in his company compel a 

 passing touch, however light — a tribute not loud but deep — 

 and bear upon their cloudlands an earnest and a hope beyond the 

 dim portals of the grave. 



It now only remains that thanks be returned to those sympa- 

 thising friends who have assisted in collecting the necessary 

 materials for the foregoing snort memoir of their lost friend and 

 fellow-worker. To Prof. A. Newton, of Cambridge, and Prof. 

 Flower, of London; to Mr. John A. Harvie-Brown and Mr. John 

 M. Campbell, as well as to the members of his own family, thanks 

 are due for references to and quotations from Mr. Alston's cor- 

 respondence, private papers, and published works. 



With his sorrowing relatives, the Natural History Society of 

 Glasgow desires to express its earnest sympathy and deep sense of 

 the loss they and his fellow-members have sustained in their 

 friend's early death. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr. James J. King exhibited specimens of Pol ycentr opus Kingi, 

 M'Lach., a new species of Trichoptera, from the North of Scotland, 

 on which some remarks were made by Mr. F. G. Binnie. 



Mr. Thomas King exhibited a collection of fresh Mosses, collected 

 near Glasgow. The specimens were all named, some of them being 

 rare, and Mr. King indicated the localities where they were obtained. 



Mr. James Allan exhibited a series of Himalayan Ferns. These 



• Traits. Nat. Hist. Soc., Glas., vol. iv., pt. i., p. 80. 



