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Craterium •pedunculatum, Trent, on dead leaves, chiefly oak and 

 grasses, near Muirhouse, Kilmalcolm (400-500 feet altitude) ; 

 Lycogala miniata, Grev., on tree-bark from Nitshill and Darnley; 

 Stemonitis fusca, Roth., S. gemina, from Cathkin Braes, found 

 by Mr. Wylie ; Reticularia lycoperdon (Lister) from a wood near 

 St. Germains Loch, Bearsden ; Arcyria punicea (Lister) on dead 

 leaves, Cathkin Braes Park ; Trichia babrytis, from fir plantation 

 near Gryfe, and from Darnley; Trichia affinis, from Falls of Clyde 

 and from Dalmellington, in deciduous woods, on various mosses 

 on the ground. 



Mr. Chas. Kirk exhibited the Common Buzzard, Buteo vulgaris. 

 Leach, from the Crieff district. This large hawk, which has all 

 the appearance of a miniature eagle, was at one time common 

 throughout Scotland, but has for so long been trapped and shot 

 that it is now scarce. 



Mr. Kirk, on behalf of Mr. Adam Wood, Troon, also brought 

 forward an unusually large-sized skull of a polar bear, Ursus 

 maritimus, Desm., shot near Hamilton Gulf, Greenland. Dr. 

 J. F. Gemmill, M.A., indicated the chief characteristics of the 

 skulls of carnivores in general, and of bears in particular, and 

 pointed out that the specimen on view showed some remarkable 

 individual peculiarities, the result, in all probability, rather of an 

 early and severe injury, than of a congenital malformation. 



Mr. James Mitchell, who had recently visited the Cape, 

 exhibited a remarkably fine series of horns of South African 

 antelopes, including those of the Eland (Oreas carina, Gray) ; the 

 Koodoo (Strepsiceros kudu, Gray) ; the Gemsbok {Oryx gazella, 

 Gray) ; the Sable Antelope (JZgocerus niger, Gray = Hippoiragus 

 niger, Buckley) ; the Roan Antelope (JE. niger, Gray = H. 

 equinus, Buckley) ; and the Springbok (Antidorcas euchora, Gray). 

 Mr. Mitchell read a paper describing the three animals first 

 mentioned above : — The Eland, the largest of living antelopes, 

 standing six feet at the shoulders, and having a prominent 

 fringed dewlap, is now only to be found in the parched and path- 

 less recesses of the Kalahari desert. The Colonial Government 

 has passed laws for its preservation, but it is difficult to get the 

 natives to understand or observe these laws where they are most 

 needed. In Natal, Government has set apart a tract of land 

 where the rarer antelopes are preserved. The Koodoo is without 



