274 The Scottish Naturalist. 



Wanlockhead, their early and recent Mining History, by 

 J. R. S. Hunter ; On a Specimen of Psephodus magnus Agass. 

 from the Carboniferous Limestone of East Kilbride, 

 Lanarkshire, by R. H. Traquair, M.D. ; Notes on a Fossiliferous 

 Shale, a little way below the Cloch Lighthouse, by Thomas 

 Scott. 



PROCEEDINGS OP THE PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF 

 NATURAL SCIENCE. Vol. I. Part V., 1884-85.— We ha\e already in 

 this Magazine, in the numbers for April and July, 1885, noticed the papers read 

 at several of the earlier meetings of this energetic Society, and published in the 

 part of the Proceedings now under review; hence we shall now only mention the 



titles of these papers, viz., Museum Notes,— I. Perthshire Mam- 

 malia, by Dr. Buchanan White. Report of Delegates to the Meetings of 

 the East of Scotland Union of Naturalists' Societies (Dr. Buchanan White), to 

 the Montreal Meeting of the British Association (Mr. Robert Pullar), and to the 

 Philadelphia Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of 



Science (Mr. Rufus D. Pullar). Comparative Anatomy of the 

 Teeth, by James Stewart, L.D.S. The Diatoms of the Tay, by Dr. 

 Trotter. Shells, their Structure, Growth, and Uses, by Henry 



Coates ; who also exhibited Testacella haliotidea, var. scutulum from Kirkcaldy, 

 a remarkably repaired shell of Helix nemoralis, and contorted variety of Plan- 

 orbis vortex from Errol. Presidential Address by Dr. Buchanan White, 

 on the Museum belonging to the Society, and the urgent need of extension. 



The Climate of the British Islands, with special reference 

 to Perthshire, by Rev. A. Campbell. On some Fresh-water 

 Annelids {Tubifex), by Prof. Allen Harker. Note on a supposed 

 New British "Willow (probably Salix spuria Schleicher, a hybrid between 

 S. lapponum and S. arbuscula), by Dr. Buchanan White. The Native 



Timber Trees of Perthshire (19 species), by W. Lindsay. The 



Museum is still being rapidly added to, alike in the local and in the index col- 

 lections; and we observe that the need of increased accommodation is much felt. 

 The following excursions were made : — On May 21st, to the lower end of 

 Glentilt. On June 13th, to Ardoch, near which were found Carex irrigua, 

 Eriophorum vaginalum, and Stellaria nemorum. On June 27th, to Acharn 

 and the shores of Loch Tay. The party had an opportunity of seeing, in Mr. 

 D. Dewar's collection of Perthshire mammals and birds, a wild cat, obtained near 

 Remony in the spring of 1885. Among the plants found during the day were 

 Festuca sylvatica, tubularia aauatica, Carex vesicaria. On July 18th, to Stuc-a- 

 chroin, one of the peaks of Ben Voirlich ; in this excursion were found Saxi- 

 fraga nivalis^ Juncus biglumis, Hieracium (?) holosericeum. The rare moth, 

 Scoparia alpina, also turned up. On July 25th, to West Bank of Tay, from 

 Grandtully to Dalguise. On August 8th, to the Linn of Campsie, when 

 several rare plants were observed, including Neottia Nidus-avis. On August 

 22nd, to North Bank of Earn, from Forteviot downwards ; on this day were 

 observed Epipaclis latifolid, Erythraea Centaurium, Limnanthemum Nympha- 

 oides, Carex paludosa and C. remota. 



