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Hennedy, with " Dr. Dalgleish " as the authority. It would 

 appear that Hennedy owed his information to Dr. Dalgleish's 

 note to Sir Wm. Hooker. The late Professor King has not 

 remarked editorially about the plant. The specimen exhibited 

 was one of a clump of twenty plants growing within a square 

 yard of space at the side of a road leading into a field, about 

 400 yards from the public highway. The farmer could give 

 no information as to how it came to be there. A single plant 

 is growing about three yards away from the rest in the clump. 

 Mr. John Smith, Monkredding, forwarded a specimen to Mr. 

 Arthur Bennett, who has confirmed its identity. In addition 

 to the Lanarkshire station, it is also recorded for Berwickshire 

 and Roxburghshire. 



Mr. James F. Gemmill, M.A., M.D., read a paper on a genus 

 and species of Nematode, new to science, which he had discovered 

 at Millport, and to which he had given the name Ichthyonema 

 grayi, Gemmill, and v. Linstrow (see page 299). Dr. Gemmill 

 was heartily congratulated by the Society on his exceedingly 

 important and interesting discovery, and on the careful and 

 ^ery complete manner in which he had carried out his investi- 

 gations into the structure and life-history of the parasite. 



29th October, 1901. 



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

 This being the Fiftieth Annual General Meeting of the Society, 

 the Hon. Secretary read the 



Report op the Council (1900-1901). 



Meetings. — Eleven meetings were held during the session, at 

 all of which there was an average attendance. 



Excursions. — A programme of thirteen excursions was drawn 

 up — seven ordinaiy, four evening, and two mycological. The 

 attendance at the evening excursions was in every case very 

 small, but at the other meetings the attendance was fair. 

 Three of the excursions were held jointly with the Andersonian 

 Naturalists' Society, and one with the Geological Society of 

 Glasgow. 



British Association. — Mr. Alex. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., 



