NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OP GLASGOW. 



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Subjoined is the Meteorological Record for the last three years, as 

 kept at the Queen's Park: — 



Copy of Meteorological Record kept at Queen's Park, Glasgow. 

 Rain gauge above the sea level, lJ/,3'95. 



II. — The Flannan Isles and their Bird Life, by Mr. John A. 

 Harvie-Brown, F.Z.S., F.R.S.E. &c, With Two Plates [Nos. 

 IV. and V]. 



Regarding the Flannan Isles, or as they are also called, " The 

 Seven Hunters," or "Seaforth's Hunters," several authors have 

 written, but none so fully as these islands seem to merit. The 

 difficulty of landing upon their almost precipitous sides, and which 

 can only be accomplished in the calmest and finest weather, and 

 then only with ease upon the two largest, has no doubt interfered 

 greatly with any attempt to survey them thoroughly. 



Dean Munro devotes rather more space to them than he usually 

 does, and his account is not without interest. He writes as 

 follows : — 



"Seven Haley Isles. — First, furth 50 myle in the Occident seas 

 from the coste of the parochin of Vye in Lewis, towarts the west 

 northwest, lyes the seven isles of Flanayn, claid with girth, and 



