386 transactions, natural history society of glasgow. 



24th June, 1902. 



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



Mr Hugh Boyd Watt reported on the Society's excursion to Ben 

 Lomond on 22nd April (see page 344), Mr. James Steel on that 

 to Dungoyne on 7th June (see page 346), and Mr. R. M. Morton 

 on that to Milton Lockhart and Carfin on 14th June (see page 

 347). Several j)hotographs taken at these excursions were ex- 

 hibited by Mr. J. W. Reoch. 



Mr. James G. Johnston, 118 Eastfield Street, Springburn, was 

 elected an Ordinary Member, and Mr. William West, F.L.S., 

 Lecturer on Botany and Materia Medica in the Technical College, 

 Bradford, was elected a Corresponding Member. 



Mr. John Paterson, Vice-President, exhibited, on behalf of 

 Mr. Charles Kirk, a specimen of the Black Tern, Hydrochelidon 

 nigra, L., from Hawick, a species which had only once pre- 

 viously been brought before any meeting of the Society, and on 

 that occasion from Possil. 



Mr. Alex. Gray exhibited specimens of the marine wood- 

 boring mollusc, Xylophaga dorsalis, Turton, found in submerged 

 timber in Loch Fyne. In connection with this the President 

 read a paper descriptive of the species, giving an account of the 

 habits of the animal and of the peculiarities of the structure of 

 its shell, the valves of which are not held together by a ligament. 

 By its rapid boring action Xylophaga performs a useful function 

 in ridding the seas of water-logged timber. 



The President, Mr. Alex. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., exhibited 

 specimens of Car ex disticha, Huds. ( = C. intermedia, Good.) the 

 Soft Brown Sedge, found by him on Great Cumbrae, near the 

 Marine Station, and confirmed by Mr. Arthur Bennet, F.L.S. 

 This species has not hitherto been recorded as occurring in Bute- 

 shire. 



The thanks of the meeting were accorded to the President 

 for his gift to the Library of the Society of British Vegetable 

 Galls, An introduction to their study, by Edward T. Connold, 

 1901. 



The following specimens of Crustacea, &c, from Loch Fyne, 

 were sent for exhibition by Mr. James Patience : — Pandalus 

 bonnieri, Caullery, from 107 fathoms ; P. propinquus, 



