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who had died in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary; and in the course 

 of some descriptive remarks he stated that the symptoms arising 

 from the presence of these animals were apt to be confounded with 

 the indications of rheumatic or typhoid fever. 



The Secretary (Mr. J. M. Campbell) exhibited eggs of Sterna 

 hirundinacea, Less., collected by him at the Port of Santa Cruz, 

 Patagonia, in 1871. He made some remarks on the habits and range 

 of the species, which he stated he had found breeding very abun- 

 dantly on a little island at the mouth of the Santa Cruz River. Mr. 

 Campbell also exhibited a skull of a variety of the black rat, 

 showing a peculiar malformation of one of the upper incisors which 

 had grown in a spiral direction until it had again entered the skull. 



The President (Mr. J. A. Harvie-Brown) sent for exhibition an 

 extensive series of one of the so-called "coal unios," Antliracosia 

 robusta, Sow., obtained in the upper coal measures of the Dal- 

 mellington district, Ayrshire, where this shell is abundant. 



Mr. John Young, F.G.S., made some remarks descriptive of the 

 genus and its affinities. 



Mr. David Robertson, F.L.S., F.G.S., exhibited specimens, 

 dredged in Loch Fyne, of Nonionina orbicularis, Brady, a foraminifer 

 new to the British fauna, and first described by Mr. H. B. Brady, 

 F.R S., from soundings obtained in the Austro-Hungarian North 

 Polar expedition in 1872. He also exhibited a beautiful specimen, 

 dredged offCumbrae, of Lacjena curvilineata, Blackwill and Wright, 

 a species new to the Scottish fauna. 



PAPERS READ. 



I. — The Flora of Ben Laoigh. By Mr. Peter Ewing. 



Ben Laoigh, (sometimes spelled Lui), forms part of the Grampian 

 range, and is situated about twenty-five miles south-west of Ben 

 Lawers, its altitude being 3708 feet, — only 276 feet lower than 

 that mountain of world-wide fame. 



Although I have headed this "The Flora of Ben Laoigh," my 

 investigations have as yet been wholly confined to the north-east 

 and north-west water-sheds; but I have no doubt that with very 

 few exceptions the flowering plants on these parts of the mountain 

 will be found recorded in the following list. The list of Mosses 

 and Hepaticae, however, I do not believe to be in any way complete. 



As to the list of flowering plants, 253 in number, 7 of our rarer 



