

NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 2")9 



At the first meeting of the 31st session, in September, 1881, Mr. 

 R. J. Bennett read his " Apiarian Report" for 1881, and Mr. Thomas 

 King read a paper on the cultivation of the Potato in its native 

 country, Chile. The report of the summer session Avas submitted 

 by Mr. R. Turner, and our thanks are due to him for the careful 

 and elaborate way in which he has drawn it out. It refers chiefly 

 to botanical discoveries and records of excursions, and contains 

 abstracts of the papers read. 



At the October meeting, our valued late President — Dr. John 

 Young — delivered an able address upon " The Relations of Natural 

 History to Medicine." 



The papers read at the November meeting were Mr. J. M. 

 Campbell's " Notes on a short Sun Fish," caught in the Firth of 

 Clyde ; and Prof. Cleland's " On the Viscera of the Porpoise and 

 White-beaked Dolphin." 



At the December meeting I gave a locally descriptive paper on 

 "The Islands and Rocks of Haskeir, and their Bird Life," while 

 Mr. Campbell read " Remarks on Method in Collecting Natural 

 History Specimens." 



At the January (1882) meeting, of papers read there were Mr. 

 D. M'Lellan's "Meteorological Notes for 1881, and remarks on the 

 Vegetation of the Parks;" " Ornithological Notes from the Loch 

 Lomond district for 1881," by Mr. James Lumsden ; and "On the 

 Flannan Isles and their Bird Life," by myself. 



At the February meeting Mr. Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S., of 

 Norwich, corresponding member, contributed a paper " On the Seal 

 and Whale-fishery of 1881," and Mr. Thomas Scott, " Notes on 

 Goniocypris mitra." 



At the March meeting Mr. W. Horn read " Additional Notes on 

 the Birds of the North-west of Perthshire." 



At the concluding meeting of the 31st session, in April, Mr. W. 

 Horn gave a paper on the "Mammalia of Buchan ;" Mr. J. Young, 

 " Notes on the Fossils found in a thin bed of impure Limestone, at 

 Glencart, near Dairy ; " and Mr. D. A. Boyd, " Notes on the Flora 

 of West Kilbride and Ardrossan." 



Besides the papers enumerated, there were, at each meeting, 

 numerous exhibitions of specimens, many of exceeding interest and 

 value, and frequently introduced by notes which, though not so 

 characterized, might, with all propriety, have been described as 

 " papers." These, as well as the papers I have mentioned, ranged 



