168 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



Mr. Robert Brown, M.D., read a paper "Botanizing among 

 the Dolomites," and exhibited many interesting specimens of the 

 flora of that district. He described the extraordinary appearance 

 of the mountains, with their predominantly grey colour, but with, 

 here and there, broad stretches of red, green, and blue tints. 

 These mountains are extremely friable, and are constantly 

 changing their outline. Botanizing on the higher slopes is not 

 very easy, owing to the amount of loose detritus. Phyieuma 

 comosum, Linn., was obtained, rooted in cracks in the dry face of 

 a rock, its peculiar whitish-blue and dark dilated head of flowers 

 projecting right out of the stone. Fotentilla nitida, Linn., an 

 extremely beautiful Alpine plant, was observed growing in 

 clumps on ledges of bare rock. Artemisia nana, Gand, a rare 

 wormwood, with small capitula, and Dianthus aipestris, Hoppe, 

 a strictly local species, were obtained, along with Swertia perennis, 

 Linn., in this district very rare and purely local. 



28th November, 1899. 



Mr. Alex. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L S., President, in the chair. 



Mr. W. K. Hutton, M.A., M.B., CM., 12 Granby Terrace, 

 Hillhead ; Mr. James Watson Reoch, 22 Montgomerie Street, 

 Kelvinside ; and Mr. Arthur Shepherd, Free Church Manse, 

 Cambuslang, were elected as Ordinary Members. 



Mr Robert Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., retiring President of 

 the Society, read as a closing presidential address a paper on 

 '•The Carboniferous Lycopods and Sphenophylls." (See page 25.) 

 The lecture was delivered in the large hall of the Philosophical 

 Society's Rooms, and was fully illustrated by lantern views. 

 Members of the Philosophical Society, the Geological Society, and 

 the Andersonian Naturalists' Society, were present by invitation, 

 and the attendance was large. Professor F. O. Bower, M.A., 

 D.Sc, F.R.S., &c, moved a vote of thanks to the lecturer, which 

 was seconded by Mr. Robert Brown, M.D. 



26th December, 1899. 



Mr. Alex. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 

 Mr. Thomas H. Bryce, M.B., CM., F.R.S.E., Queen Margaret's 



