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plants. Schiehallion — 3,547 feet — was especially barren, and the 

 few alpine plants collected on it were small and stunted. Farragon 

 Hill was also visited, and though 100 feet lower than Schiehallion, 

 possessed a richer flora. This hill is composed of micaceous schist, 

 and is consequently more moist. The little strath through which 

 the river flows at Tummel Bridge contains a great number of 

 common species of plants, which, being well sheltered, attain 

 great luxuriance. In the bog-pools, some desmid gatherings made 

 were found to be rich in species. The principal plants collected 

 were: — Radiol a mttlecirana, Lycopodium annotinum, Utricularia 

 minor, U. intermedia, Ardostaphylos Uva-urxi, Epilobium alpinum, 

 Thalictrum alpinum, Vicia Orobus, Oxyria reniformis, Sedum 

 Rhodiola, Sagina saxatilis, Drdba incana, Arabis Mrsuta, Meum 

 Athamanticuin, "Polystichum Lonchitis, Asplenium viride, Nitella 

 opaca, and Chara fragilis. 



These reports were all unanimously approved of, and it was 

 agreed that they should be printed in the next part of the 

 Proceedings. 



The election of office-bearers was then proceeded with, the 

 subjoined list for 1881-82 being the result: — President — Professor 

 John Young, M.D., F.G.S. Vice-Presidents— W. J. Milligan, John 

 Kirsop, F.S.A.Scot., Professor John Cleland, M.D., F.K.S. 

 Secretaries — Robert Mason, John M. Campbell. Treasurer — Robert 

 J. Bennett. Librarian — Francis G. Binnie. Members of Council — 

 James B. Murdoch, F. S.A.Scot., Rev. A. S. Wilson, M.A., B.Sc, 

 Richard M'Kay, John Young, F.G.S., Thomas King, Robert 

 Turner, John A. Harvie-Brown, F.Z.S., F.R.S.E., &c, Peter 

 Cameron, and M. C. Duff. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the Society: — 

 as honorary members — Messrs. James Murie, M.D., LL.D., &c, 

 Burlington House, London; and Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., F.L.S., 

 &c, Cambridge ; as corresponding member — Mr. John King, 

 British Vice-Consul, Carizal, Bajo, Chili; as ordinary members — 

 Messrs. James Johnston, John Thomson, Alfred Kling, Charles 

 Mackinnon Ramsay, John Hill, Alexander Martin, and Alexander 

 Somerville, F.L.S. 



Mr. John M. Campbell exhibited a specimen of a variety of the 

 Common Ringed Snake, Natrix torquata, Ray, which he had 

 received from Cambridgeshire, He called attention to the colour 



