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Fig. 22. — Another posterior plate somewhat larger than the last. 

 x 6. Collection. — J. Eennie. 



Clutonellus Youngianus, Kirkby. 



Fig. 23 — A posterior plate, with the highly granulated exposed 

 area and posterior ridges. x 4. Collection. — J. Armstrong. 

 Fig. 24. — Side view of the same plate. x 4. 



THE SOCIETY'S ROOMS, 207 BATH STREET, 



April 26th, 1881. 



Mr. John Young, F.G.S., in the Chair. 



Messrs. James Riddell, George R. Alexander, Alexander Birrell, 

 John Ingram, and John Alexander Young, were elected ordinary 

 members. Mr. T. E. Buckley, F.Z.S., Attadale House, Strath- 

 carron, Ross-shire, was elected a life member. 



It was announced by the Librarian that four volumes of The 

 Zoologist had been presented to the Society's Library by Mr. 

 James Lumsden, F.Z.S., to whom the thanks of the Society were 

 therefore cordially awarded. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr. David Robertson, F.L.S., exhibited specimens of Teclinitella 

 legumen, Norman, and Teclinitella malo, Norman, dredged at Oban 

 in September, 1875. They were referred by the Rev. A. M. 

 Norman to the Poriphora, and by Mr. H. J. Carter to the Rhizo- 

 poda. The contention was urged for a time somewhat strongly by 

 both parties, and without the dispute being settled they have lain 

 over until almost forgotten. In the interval Mr. Saville Kent, 

 having studied the living animals in the Channel Islands, has finally 

 published (Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., vol. ii., p. 68, pi. iv.-v.) 

 his descriptions and illustrations, and states that the foraminiferal 

 nature of these organisms is now established beyond dispute. The 

 tests of the two under notice are made up of sponge spicules, and 

 from external appearance the resemblance to a sponge is very great, 

 and it is not surprising that they should be mistaken for such. At 



