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Donations.— Annxx^X Report of Glasgow Archisological Society, 

 1881, from said Society ; from Mr Symington, Whinnyhill School- 

 house, 20 coins of various dates and nationalities. 



Exhibits.— By Mr Frank Grierson, specimen of the Lesser 

 Bladderwort, Utricularici vxdgaris, found by him in Lochar Moss ; 

 by Dr Gilchmt, a mineral substance found near Holywood Station,' 

 which he considered to be an aerolite ; from Rev. J. Fraser, large 

 mass of Common Barnacle, Lepas passicukiris, found by him on 

 Colvend shore. 



Mr Rutherford exhibited a series of micro-photo transparencies, 

 by means of the lantern, and a series of microscopic objects, pro- 

 jected from the lantern microscope, illustrating animal struc- 

 ture. He also exhibited a number of local and other views, and 

 explained the different objects as they appeared upon the screen. 



The meeting had next an opportunity of examining interesting 

 objects by means of a number of microscopes of various construc- 

 tion and power belonging to Mr Rutherford, Mr F. W. Grierson 

 Mr Wilson, Rev. T. Bowman, Mr Davidson, and Dr T. P. Ander- 

 son Stuart. 



M Febriuxry, 1882. 



Sheriff Hope, Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 Thirty members present. 



New Mevihers.-Bev. J. Thyrde ; Mr James Herries. 



Do7mtions.—FroeeedmgB of Perthshire Society of Natural 

 Science ; Vol. I., part 1, and Vol. II., part 2, of the Transactions 

 ot the Eppmg Forest and County of Essex Naturalists' Field Club 



Bxhzbits.—By Mr Shaw, pieces of ti-ap-rock from Tynron with 

 curious cup-like markings; by Mr T. Brown, piece of steatite, 

 picked up at Holestane; by Mr S. Chrystie, an orange bavin- 

 centnd segments; by Mr Rutherford, a jasper, found on Hightown 

 am, Iinwald, a curious egg-shaped bit of Silurian rock, found at 

 Jardington, and two trays of rare old coins, respecting which last 

 he read some notes and an extract from an old work explaining 

 why our sterling coinage has the symbols £ s d. Mr P Stobie 

 exhibited a volume of "Essays on Anatomy," from the French, 

 dated 1832. ' 



J^-opagation of the Filices.-Mv J. Wilson read a paper entitled 

 The Propagation of the Filices," illustrated by prepared speci- 



