192 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



object of assisting themselves in scientific studies should not be 

 content by merely being in possession of the dried skins or pre- 

 served bodies of the animals themselves. These in the end will 

 not only become an eye-sore to their possessors, and a species of 

 white elephant which they will be as anxious to get rid of as they 

 were to get, but which their friends will reject when offered to them. 



3 1st January, 1882. 



Mr. John A. Harvie-Brown, F.Z.S., F.R.S.E., in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected ordinary members of the 

 Society : — Messrs. James Dunlop, Woodfoot Cottage, Nitshill; 

 John Wood, Hurlet; and Frank R. J. Long, 8 White vale Street. 



Mr. Thomas King exhibited a number of Mosses in fruit, from 

 Innellan, and most of which although common species fruit but 

 rarely; amongst them were Hypnum sjrfendens, H. squarrosum, H. 

 pur urn, H. triquetrum, H. Schrebe?°i, H. loreum, and H. molhcscum ; 

 also Hookeria lucens, (frequent at Innellan), Bryum roseum, rare, 

 (Innellan being a new locality) and Dicranum squarrosum (from 

 Campsie). 



Mr. Thomas Scott sent for exhibition, through Mr. James Steel, 

 a fine series of the remains of fish, crustaceans, &c, from Garvel 

 Park, Greenock. Interesting features in the collection were the 

 remains of Cancer pagurus and a Hi/as which — along with a speci- 

 men exhibited from the Raised Beach at Cumbrae — fill up the 

 succession of brachyuran crabs from Permian to recent times. 

 The existence of Hermit Crabs in the Post-tertiary period has 

 hitherto been believed only from the occurrence of shells bearing 

 evidence of having been occupied by those crustaceans. Mr. Scott, 

 in finding the remains of the Crabs themselves, has thus proved 

 the fact of their existence. He accounts for their rarety by the 

 theory that, after death, the carapace became very fragile and readily 

 broken up. 



Mr. Steel also exhibited some Mammalian Teeth and Bones found 

 at the Crannoge of Lochlea, near Kilmarnock. The specimens 

 comprised remains of Pig, Deer, and Ox, the latter probably the 

 remains of Bos scoticus. 



Mr. James Lumsden, F.Z.S., exhibited a brown variety of the 



