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Paul, which enumerates several rarities among the larger fungi of "Tweed." 

 They will be noticed in the supplement to Mycologia Scotica. 



Notes on the Marine Algee of Berwick-on-Tweed, by Edward A, 

 L. Butters (4 plates) enumerates and describes 17 species of seaweeds not pre- 

 viously found in the district, several of the species being figured on the accom- 

 panying plates. The additions are — Sphcerozyga Carmichcelii, Spirulina tena- 

 issima, Oscillatoria littoralis, O. subtdiformis, O. nigroviridis, 0. insignia. 

 Lyngbya fermginea, Rivularia alra Roth., var. ccmfluens, Hormospora ramosa, 

 Cladophora flavescens, Vaucheria velulina. Fucus vesiciclosus, var, B. subcosta- 

 tus, Diclyosiphon hippuroides, Sphacelarla ccespitzila, Cruoria ad/iaerens, Melo- 

 besia Lenormandi, M. coralline?. Of these species several are quite common 

 in the district, though previously overlooked. 



We shall now return to the excursions, the report of which occupies 

 45 P a S es > but which must be noticed very briefly here. Five excursions were 

 made in 1883 — viz., to Kelso and Eccles on 30th May, to Holy 

 Island on 27th June, to Aberlady on 25th July, to St. Mary's Loch on 

 29th August, and one to Woolerand Cheviot in September. The first, second, 

 and fourth of these were well attended, and were favoured with fine weather ; 

 the other two were made under unfavourable skies, and were consequently ill- 

 attended. Several plants of interest were picked up on Holy Island, but we 

 can hardly claim this as a Scotch locality. We note Cakile rugosa, found on 

 the Castle Rock, reported as new to Britain ; but it has often been found 

 before as an escape. Some account of the ponds at Gosford, and of the 

 waterfowl preserved on them, as also of the shrubberies, begins the report on 

 the Aberlady excursion. Trifolium fragifemm, gathered on the coast west of 

 the Peffer, and a great abundance of larvae of Euchelia Jacobcece on the links 

 at Gullane, were the most noteworthy finds. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL 

 SCIENCE.— Vol. I. Part 4.— 1883-84.— This recently published part well 

 sustains the reputation already gained by the Society for the quality of the 

 papers brought before it ; but as we have had occasion during the past year 

 to refer to most of the articles in our reports of the meetings of the Society, we 

 shall here confine ourselves to the titles of the papers, and must leave those 

 desirous of a fuller knowledge of their contents to obtain it from this source, 

 or, still better, from the Proceedings themselves. The papers are — " On the 

 Occurrence in Perthshire of Bones of the Red Deer in a Subfossil Condition," 

 by Dr. F. Buchanan White; "Some Results of the Challenger Expedition 

 {Pelagic Hemiptera), also by him ; " Dimorphism in Oak Call-Makers and in 

 their Galls," by Professor J. W. H. Trail ; "Account of the Conversazione on 

 the Opening of the new Perth Museum on 20th, 21st, and 22nd December ; " 

 "Hedgehog's Nest" and "Seasonal Phenomena," and "Notes," by Dr. F. B. 

 White ; " The Life-History of a Garden Snail," by Henry Coates ; on speci- 

 mens of Carex tistulata and Triiicum alpinum Don, from Don's Her- 

 barium, labelled as from Ben Lawers ; notes on varieties of Helix nemoralis, 

 from Perthshire, by Henry Coates ; " Evolution and some things said regard- 

 ing it," by Rev. Dr. Milroy ; the President's (Col. Drummond Hay) Address, 

 dealing with the objects and needs of the Society's Museum ; " How an Insect 

 Flies," by S. T. Ellison, illustrated with diagrams ; " Fruit Culture and some of 

 the Hindrances to its more General Cultivation, "(by Dr. Robertson. During the* 



