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centre of a sponge that had grown up and dissolved the Turritella shell, in 

 which the crab had previously lived, by Thomas Scott, with a plate.) Notes 



on some Plants of the Clyde district, by D. A. Boyd. A Week 

 at Glen Sh.ee, by Peter Ewing (is an account of a botanical visit to the 

 Spital, and the hills and glens in its vicinity). Notes on the 



Neuroptera of Argyllshire, by James J. F. X. King. Notes on 

 the Algse of the Kildonan Shore, Arran, by David Gregorson, 

 F.E.I.S. The external configuration of Plants in relation 

 to "Wind Pressure and Water Currents, by Alexander S. 

 Wilson, M.A., B.Sc. Thomas Hopkirk of Dalbeth, a Sketch 



Of his Life and Botanical Work, by Robert Turner (with a portrait, 

 pp. 196-259, is an appreciative memoir of one of the most distinguished of 

 Scotch botanists, with an "attempt to estimate the amount of difference that 

 has arisen in the Flora of the district since his time, and to account for it.") 

 Notes on a Hybrid between a Black Cock and a Pheasant, 

 by W. Craibe Angus, with a plate. 



The Fauna of Scotland, with special reference to Clydesdale and the 

 Western District, is continued as a separately paged appendix, including 

 Hymenoptera, Part 2., by Peter Cameron. During the six years that 

 have elapsed since the publication of Part 1, Mr. Cameron has been able to 

 add 59 species to the list of Scottish Sawfiies, 32 being additions to Clydesdale. 

 The Cynipidae are next treated of, on the basis of the works of Drs. Adler and 

 Mayr. A synopsis of the Gall-making genera, and another of the Scottish 

 Oak-galls are included, and add largely to our information upon the group of 

 gall-makers. We give elsewhere in this number the list of Scottish Oak- 

 gall-makers. The number of species of Cynipidre now recorded from Scotland 

 by Mr. Cameron stands as follows : — Gall-makers, 36 ; Inquilines, 14 ; 

 Parasites, 71. {Allotriina, 28; Eucoilldes, 24; Anacharides, 11; Figitidzs, 

 8. ) Among the parasitic forms the following are described as new species : — 

 Allotria ancylocei'a, A. maciilicollis, A. basimacula, A. caledonica, Kleditoma 

 striata, K. picipes. 



In the " Proceedings " of the society are numerous notices of considerable in- 

 terest. On 15th May, 1883, Mr. Ewing exhibited several Hepaticae, of which 

 a list is given from different new localities ; among them were Cephalozia 

 Lammei'sidna Htibn. from Loch Lomond, Fossombro?iia caespitiformis De Not. 

 from Cumbernauld, and Mrtzgeria conjugata Lindb., from Kinross-shire, all 

 three believed by him to be new to Scotch lists. 31st July ; Mr. Turner gave 

 a list of flowering" plants observed in a few hours visit to the Lesser 

 Cumbrae. Mr. Cameron exhibited specimens of several species of 

 Sawfiies, including Dineura stilata ; and pointed out that in this species 

 about 70 p.c. show the neuration of the wings characteristic of the genus 

 NematuSy apparently as the result of the mode of folding of the wings while in 

 the pupa. Mr. W. Goodwin described a method of Double-staining" 

 Vegetable Tissues. 14th August, Mr. J. Steel submitted a list of 

 Fresh-water Mollusca from the Port-Dundas and Fir-hill Timber- 

 basins of the Forth and Clyde Canal. 27th November, Mr. Cameron 

 exhibited several rare Ichneumons, including Oresbius casianeus Marsh, 

 an alpine species from the top of Goatfell. Arran ; Hemiteies marginalus Bridg., 



