xvi Proceedings. \March ijth, iqo6. 



Ordinary Meeting, March i3tli, 1906. 



Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, D.Sc, F. R.S., in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the table. 



Mr. Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of 

 the Pine Marten, marfes abietum^ which was captured in 

 Queen's County, Ireland, last April. He mentioned that 

 Martens, whilst they do not appear to be very suspicious of 

 traps as some wild animals are, yet range so far and in such 

 varied directions, seldom following the same run, that they are 

 only taken by accident. The specimen exhibited was so caught, 

 in a trap set for rabbits, and singularly enough by the nail only 

 of one of its toes. As regards its distribution, the Marten has 

 met with the same fate in Ireland as in England and Scotland. 

 At one time it was common throughout the island, but with the 

 advance of civilisation, — railways, cultivation and the deforesting 

 of woods, it has been driven to the wildest parts of the country, 

 but not necessarily to the North and West. 



Mr. Nicholson afterwards presented the specimen to the 

 Manchester Museum at the University. 



Mr. C. Gordon Hewitt, B.Sc, read a paper entitled 

 " The Cytological Aspect of Parthenogenesis in 

 Insects." 



Mr. W. Thomson, F.R.S.E., F.I.C., read a paper entitled 

 " Notes on Arsenic and on its Estimation in Minute 

 Quantities." 



