148 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
West Kilbride. These included Senecio Jacobea, Linn., bearing 
numerous clusters of the blackish teleutospores of Puccinia 
glomerata, Grev.; Taraxacum officinale, Web., affected with the 
zecidiospores, uredospores, and teleutospores of Puccinia variabilis, 
Grey. ; and Holcus mollis, Linn., bearing parallel lines of the black 
spore-masses of 7'lletia strieformis (Westd.) Winter. 
Mr. L. Watt read a paper entitled “ Notes on the Utricularia, 
or Bladderworts,” in which reference was made to the occurrence 
of various species in localities in West of Scotland. The paper 
was illustrated with a series of specimens. 
8rH August, 1893. 
Mr. William Stewart, Vice-President, in the chair. 
Mr. John Renwick referred to the loss which the Society had 
sustained by the death of Sir Michael Connal, It was unani- 
mously resolved that a suitable memorial notice should be inserted 
in the minute-book, and that the Secretary should express to Lady 
Connal the warm sympathy of the members with her in the 
bereavement she has sustained. 
In Memoriam—Sir Micuart Connat. 
The family of Connal, from which Sir Michael was descended, 
had for a long period been closely connected with the county and 
' town of Stirling. Until the close of the seventeenth century, the 
Connals were farmers in the western portion of the county, while, 
from about 1745 onwards, we find that representatives of the 
family occupied prominent positions in the ancient and royal 
burgh itself. Michael Connal, merchant and banker in Stirling, 
was for many years provost of the burgh. He died in 1812, and 
was succeeded as a banker in the town by his eldest son Patrick. 
The third son of the latter was Michael Connal of Parkhall, at 
one time in the Honourable East India Company’s service, and 
the elder son of this Michael Connal was the subject of the 
present notice. 
Michael Connal was born in August, 1817, in Miller Street, 
Glasgow, in a house (still standing) which was the town mansion 
,of his uncle, Mr. William Connal, Lord Dean of Guild of Glasgow. 
On the return of his father from a visit to India, the family went 
