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that our whole solar system was passing through a gigantic cometic field, the 

 matter in which occasioned the glow. 



Thursday, Jan. Jlh, 1886, was devoted to The Natural History of 

 Kinnoull Hill, which was ti-eated very exhaustively, as follows : — Intro- 

 ductory by Dr. F. Buchanan White ; Geology by Prof. James Geikie ; The 

 Flowering Plants by Mr. James Coates ; The Ferns, Mosses, and Fungi by 

 Dr. F. B. White ; the Insects by Mr. S. T. Ellison ; the Molluscs by Mr. 

 Henry Coats ; and the Vertebrates by Dr. F. B. White. The idea seems a 

 good one ; and the results were such as might have been looked for in such a 

 method of treatment. 



Thursday, Jan. 21st. — An enjoyable conversazione was held from 7 to to 

 p.m., by members and their friends. 



PUBLICATIONS OP SCOTTISH SOIENTIHC SOCIETIES. 



PROCEEDINGS OP THE BERWICKSHIRE NATUR- 

 ALISTS' CLUB. Of the new volume of these valuable proceedings, acon- 

 siderable part is, as usual, occupied with papers of antiquarian interest, but 

 there are a number relating to the sciences included in our pages, and these we 

 shall now enumerate. The presidential address, by Commander F. M. Norman, 



deals with, first, Darwinism and Revealed Religion, from the point 



of view that these are opposed to each other (a point of view which we believe 

 erroneous) ; and then passes on to the Salmon Disease, insisting on the 

 necessity of the complete destruction of the bodies of diseased fish. Next 

 follows a report of 52 pages on the Meetings of the Club in the year 1884, by 

 the President, who also contributes a paper on Embedded Reptiles, 

 with reference to frogs and toads found living in cavities of rocks, and other 

 massive bodies. The other papers in this part may best be grouped according 

 to their subjects. The first is an Obituary memoir of Ralph Carr- Ellison of 

 Dunstan Hill and Hedgeley, with a list of papers written by him, 



Botanical.— List of Fungi found in 1884, and not hither- 

 to recorded from the Border District, by Rev. David Paul, 



recording 16 additions to the Hymenomycetes of the district. Notes Oil 



the Marine Algse of Berwick-on-Tweed, by E. A. L. Batters, 



records 18 species new to Berwick; of which Elachisla Areschougii, Cladophora 

 arctiuscula, and Codiolum longipcs are new to Britain. Allimouth list of 

 Marine Algae, by Andrew Amory. 



Zoological.— On Lepidoptera in Roxburghshire, Part II., by 

 Adam Eliiot. Records of the Migrations, Local Movements, 

 and Occurrence of Birds on the Borders for 1882-83 and 

 1884-85, a series of reports by James Hardy, Robert Kenton, Dr. Charles 

 Stuart, John Aitchison, and George Bolam. Ornithological Notes, 



