136 The Scottish Naturalist. 



and Seal-fishing, from personal experiences in the course of the summer 

 of 1884. 



April 21st. — On the motion of Prof. Trail, a Committee of the Society was 

 appointed " to assist the Aberdeen Local Executive Committee of the British 

 Association in the preparation ot a Local Natural History Exhibition during 

 the meeting of the British Association in Aberdeen in September." In absence 

 of any museum of the local fauna, flora, and geology, Aberdeen is at present 

 lagging behind other towns of smaller population and wealth ; but it is hoped 

 that the approaching meeting will be an incentive to remedy this defect. A 

 paper was read from Mr. A. Stephen Wilson, On the Potato Sclero- 

 tiet, that, at present, much discussed body, familiar (at least in name) to 

 readers of the Gardeners' Chronicle, and of the Journal of Botany, Prof. 



Trail made a communication on Recent Additions to the Flower- 

 ing Plants and the Fungi of North -East Scotland, 



and exhibited specimens of the more interesting, including Viola Curtisii, 

 Genm niacropkyllum (well established in one locality near Aberdeen), and 

 a considerable number of micro-fungi. Mr. F. G. Ogilvie called attention 

 to Hull's Atlas of Historical Geology. Arrangements with regard to excur- 

 sions, &c, were remitted to the council. 



TRANSACTIONS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY 

 SOCIETY OF ABERDEEN, 1885— This Society has since its 

 origin acted upon the rule of publishing only such of the papers read before it 

 as refer to the fauna, flora, or geology of the north-east of Scotland, giving 

 preference to those that relate especially to the counties around Aberdeen. 

 Of the papers that are included in the recently-published Transactions, one or 

 two are modified and extended from articles that have appeared in the pages of 

 this Magazine. The articles in the part are : — Introduction, by John 

 Roy, being a list of subjects on which papers have been read or lectures 

 delivered before the Society since 187S ; Supplementary List of 



Fungi found in the Province of Moray (N6s. 1041-1295) by Rev. 

 James Keith, LL.D. ; Additions and Corrections to Topo- 

 graphical Botany, ed. 2, for the Counties from Forfar to 



Elgin, inclusive, by Prof. James W. H. Trail and John Roy ; List of 



introduced Plants and Casuals observed in N.E. Scot- 

 land, especially in Dee, by Prof. Trail , Scottish Galls, by Prof. 

 Trail; Preliminary List of the Echinodermata of the N.E. 

 Coast of Scotland, by George Sim ; Additions to Catalogue 

 of Fish found in the Vicinity of Aberdeen, and Additions 

 to List of the Crustacea of the N.E. of Scotland, by Geo. Sim. 



DUMFRIES-SHIRE AND GALLOWAY NATURAL 

 HISTORY AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. - Session 



1884-5. — The fourth meeting of the session was held on 2nd January, 1885, 

 when communications were read on (1) " Notes on Some Trichoptera 



from the Stewartry," by Mr, J. J. King ; (2) " Notes on the 

 Town's Common Mills and their History," by Mr. J. Barbour, 

 V.P. 



