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Glasgow. {March) South London Entom. and Nat. Hist. Society (21st Jan. 

 1886), Mr. South exhibited Noctua tieglecta, with its variety castanea Esp. 

 from Perthshire. (4//* Feb.), Mr. South exhibited Emmetesia albulaia from 

 Dumbarton, Rannoch, and Shetland. 



SCIENCE GOSSIP [March to December, 1885).— (P. 68) Dolerite and 

 Horneblende-schist, being notice of a paper read by J. Harris Teale, in 

 reference to the transition from dolerite into horneblende-schist at Scourie, 

 in Sutherland ; (p. 92) notice of a paper by Prof. J. F. Blake, in the *' Pro- 

 ceedings of the Geologists' Association," on the Archaean Rocks of the 

 North-West Highlands; (p. 131 and p. 159) Holiday Rambles through 

 Wigtonshire, by J. Claridge Druce ; (p. 213) Fossil Algae at Kirkcaldy, 

 by John Sang, relates to fossil stems found at Kirkcaldy in an excavation. 

 Mr. Sang proposes to name the plant Halophy'is magnum. Microscopic 

 sections are very like those of Laminaria ; (p. 280) The Geology of Cor- 

 storphine Hill, near Edinburgh, by Alexander Johnstone, stated to show 

 the close relationship of diorite to gabbro ; (p. 281) Andersonian Natural- 

 ists' Society. On 25th August a meeting was held in Anderson's College, 

 Glasgow, at which a Society was formed under the above name, with Mr. 

 Wm. Cumming, West End College, Chryston, by Glasgow, as secretary. 

 Starling eating Earwigs, by F. Brebner. {January to March, 1886). 

 (P. 19) The Bottle-Nose Whale {Hyperoodon rostratus) by Js. Simpson ; 

 a specimen stranded near Dunbar, 5th Dec, and purchased for Edinburgh 

 University. 



GREVILLEA {Sept. and Dece?n., 1885).— British Sphaeropsidese, by 

 Dr. M. C. Cooke, is a list of species found in the British Islands, and amon^ 

 them are some not recorded — in the Mycologia Scotica and its supplements in 

 the Scottish Nahualist. Phoma Strobi, B. and Br., on leaves and cones of 

 Pimts Sirobus, Glamis ; Neottiospora Caricum, Desm., on dead Carices, Moray ; 

 Cytispora chrysosperma, Pers., on Populus alba, Glasgow; Ceuihospora pha- 

 cidioides Grew, on Holly leaves, Edinburgh. In Synopsis Pyrenomycetum 

 (Vol. XIV. pp. 46-47), Dr. Cooke records Valsa {Chorostaie) punctata, Cooke, 

 on branches of Tilia and Salix, Edinburgh, and Valsa {C.) olivcestroma, Cooke, 

 on branches of Prunus Avium, Jedburgh (Jerdon). 



THE GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE {March).— On the recent dis- 

 covery of the Wing of a Cockroach and two Scorpions in Rocks of 

 Silurian Age, by Herbert Goss, refers to the Scorpion found by Dr. Hunter, 

 in the Ludlow beds of Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire. On some recent views 

 concerning the Geology of the North-west Highlands, by Dr. Henry 



Hicks (read 2d January, 1885, to Geologists'' Association). {April). The 



Tertiary and Older Peridotites of Scotland, by John W. Judd (read nth 

 February, 1885).— {June) Abstract of paper read (12th March) before 

 Geological Society of Glasgow, by John Young, F.G. S., on Cone-in-Cone- 

 structure. {August) On a Specimen of Psephodus magnus Agassiz, 

 from the Carboniferous Limestone of East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, 

 by R. H. Traquair, M.D., F.R.S. : On a New Species of Helmintho- 



