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their proper exhibition. Dr. White dwelt upon the pressing need of extension 

 of the buildings, which could be effected, including fittings, probably for about 

 ^"1500, so as to provide the accommodation required for a considerable time. 

 There can be little doubt that so energetic a body as the Society has proved 

 itself to be in the past will succeed in carrying out this very desirable under- 

 taking. 



April 2nd. A donation of ^150 to the funds of the Society from the " Duncan 

 Trustees " was intimated. Dr. F. B. White exhibited a skull of a common rat 

 in which three of the teeth had reached an excessive length, so that those in 

 the upper jaw almost formed rings. Rev. A. Campbell, Errol, read a paper 



on The climate of the British Islands, with special reference 



to Perthshire. He afterwards undertook to prepare each year a summary 

 of meteorological observations in Perthshire, with observations of the effects of 

 each season in stimulating or retarding vegetation. 



Prof. Allen Harker, Cirencester, followed with a paper, On some Fresh- 

 Water Annelids, from rain-pools on the dry Oolitic CotteswokTHills. He 

 He described especially the habits of a small red worm, probably Tiibifex 

 rivuUrum Lamarck. 



SCIENTIF IC J OURNALS, 



JOURNAL OP BOTANY.-(Marcli, 18S5.)— Notes on the 



British Characese for 1884, by Henry and James Groves ; the follow- 

 ing species and localities are recorded from Scotland : — Chara fragilis Desv., 

 from Wigtown, Lanark, Easterness, Westerness, Dumbarton, and West Ross ; 

 Ch. aspera Willd., mid-Perth, Easterness; C. conlrariaK&tZ, Skye; C. hispida 

 L., Easterness; C. vulgaris L., Haddington, Easterness; var. papillata, 

 Easterness; Nitella translucent Agardh, Stirling; N. flexdis Agardh, Stirling ; 

 var. crassa, mid-Perth ; N. opaca Agardh, Berwick, Stirling, Ebudes N., 

 Ross E. and W. 



ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HIS- 

 TORY, (February, 1885).— Notes from the St. Andrew's 

 Marine Laboratory, by Prof. M'Intosh, "On the British species of 

 Cyanea and the Reproduction of Mytilus edulis ; " April, Notices of 

 British Fungi, XXX., by Rev. M. J. Berkeley and C. E. Broome, 

 enumerates the following from Scotch localities : — A. (Clitocybe) fu/nosiis Fers., 

 sent from Roxburgh, by Rev. D. Paul, so dark brown as to seemqute different 

 from type ; A. {Pholiota) subluleus, Fl. Dan. from Faldonside (Rev. D. Paul, 

 and W. B. Boyd), "an interesting addition to the list of British Agarics; " 

 Marasiuius varicosus Fr., Tarland, Aberdeenshire, amongst moss (M. J. B.). 



ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE, (March, 



1885)— Notes] Oil British Typhlocybidse, by James Edwards, enum- 

 erates Dicranoneura aureola from Carices in Findhorn Marsh near Forres. 

 At the meeting of the Entomological Society of London, on 18th Feb., 1885 

 Mr. J. W. Slater exhibited a specimen of Lycaena chryseis, one of three said 

 to have been taken in July, 1878, by Mr. Mutch in Culter Marsh, Aberdeenshire. 

 Mr. Elwes stated that the specimen resembled the variety known as Stieberi 

 Gerhard, from Lapland. (Further information in regard to this capture is 



desirable). Notes on the Nitidulidse of Great Britain, by Rev 



