PEOCEEDINGS OF THE 

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and even after lie bad retired from the central sphere of the 

 scientific world to the quiet pursuits of a couiitry hfe, he con- 

 tinued to show his friendly reo;ard for the Society by making 

 valuable additions to our Library, and by presenting us with the 

 admirable portrait, which is one of the ornaments of this room. 

 That portrait will remind many of those who are present 

 to-night of the honest face, of the genial, yet manly ways 

 which gained to him the confidence of all who came in contact 



with him. 



" Unfortunately I was unable to attend personally at the 

 funeral, which took place last Tuesday in Parkstone Cemetery, 

 but feeling sure that it would be the wish of the Society, one of 

 our Secretaries, Professor Howes, went at my request to Ardmore 

 to represent the Society on the occasion." 



Mr. William Eichard Carles having been admitted a Pellow 

 of the Society, the following were balloted for and elected :-— 

 Messrs. James Eamsay Drummond, Donald McDonald, Daniel 

 Jfinlayson and Arthur Sinclair. 



Prof. J. B. Parmer, M.A., F.L.S,, exhibited and made remarks 

 on some Gralla on the roots of Agrostis alba, and with the aid 

 of lantern-slides demonstrated their mode of formation and 

 development. 



Mr. Carruthers, P.E.S., made some observations. 



Mr. J. E. Harting, P.L.S., exhibited some photographs of "Wild 

 Croats from certain islands of the TEgean Sea, with the object of 

 throwing light upon the vexed question of their specific identity. 

 After tracing the distribution, eastward from Greece, of the 

 Cretan Ibex, Gapra cegagrus, he referred to specimens which he 

 had examined in the British Museum and in the Museums of 

 Paris and Athens, and came to the conclusion that the Wild Goat 

 found on the island of Antlmilos, which had been described by 

 Erhard (' Pauna der Cycladen,' p. 29) under the name of ^-Ego- 

 cerus pictus, was identical with the species found in Crete, namely 

 C. cegagrus ; whilst the Goats found on the island of Joura, 

 ■which had been described and figured by Reichenow (Zpol. Jahrb. 

 1888, iii. p. 591) as Capra dorcas, were merely the descendants 

 of domesticated animals which had run wild. 



The President referred to the small amount of change that 

 had taken place between the wild and domesticated breeds of 

 Goats, and to the fact that feral individuals, Irish and Welsh, 

 sometimes developed horns approximating in size and character 

 those of the wild type. 



Mr. Thomas Christy, P.L.S., exhibited a living plant oi Begonia 

 venosa, Skan, which had been raised from seed procured by Prof. 

 Lofgren, F.L.S., on an island near Para, and pointed out some 

 of its peculiarities. 



