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28th February, 1882. 



Mr. John Kirsop, F.S.A. Scot., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Thos. Scott, 7 Caddlehill Street, Greenock, was elected a 

 corresponding member, and Messrs. Donald Farquhar, 32 Govanhill 

 Street, and John Lockhart, 271 Bath Street, were elected ordinary- 

 members of the Society. 



Mr. Thomas King exhibited cones of the Douglas Pine, Abies 

 Douglasii. Ldl., grown at Innellan, and made some remarks on the 

 growth of this and other allied species. 



Mr. Kobert Mason exhibited cones and a section of the wood of 

 the Cedar of Lebanon, Cedrus Libani, Loud., and made some 

 interesting observations on the geographical distribution of the 

 species. 



Mr. Thomas Scott reported the finding of the English Sage, 

 Salvia verbenaca, Lin., at Batteryfield, Greenock. This plant is not 

 indigenous in the West, and Mr. Scott considered it to be a probable 

 garden escape. He illustrated his remarks with specimens of the 

 same species from Burntisland. 



The Chairman exhibited a collection of Botanical Plates illus- 

 trating the Flora of Japan, also a snout of a Sawfish, Pristis, sp., 

 the siliceous anchoring fibres of a Hyalonema, and some other 

 objects of interest. 



Mr. John Young, F.G.S., exhibited several cones of Lepidostrobus 

 from the Bathgate coalfield, and pointed out the resemblance to a 

 recent species figured in one of Mr. Kirsop's plates. He also made 

 some remarks on different species of recent and fossil cones. 



Mr. J. J. King exhibited specimens of the Long-tailed Blue 

 Butterfly, Lijcaena boetica, Lin., taken at Ardrossan, and of the 

 Crimson-speckled Tiger Moth; De'iopeia pxdchella^ Lin., taken at 

 Whitevale — the former in July, 1881, and the latter in January last. 

 In referring to their occurrence in Britain, Mr. King thought that 

 probably they had been accidentally introduced. 



Mr. J. M. Campbell exhibited living specimens of the Sharp- 

 backed Emys, Graptemys pseudogeographica, Less., from Belize, and 

 of the Blood-spotted Swanka, Swanka cruentata, D. et B., from 



