154 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
Mr. R. 8. Wishart, M.A., Vice-President, submitted numerous 
specimens of flowering-plants from the neighbourhood of Croydon, 
Surrey. These included Diplotaxis muralis, DC., Asperula ceynan- 
chica, Linn., Cnicus acaulis, Hoftm., Nepeta Cataria, Linn., &e. 
Mr. R. D. Wilkie showed an extensive series of flowering-plants 
from North-East Yorkshire, including Nasturtiwm amphibium, 
R. Br., Cnicus eriophorus, Hoftm., Hottonia palustris, Linn. ; 
Ballota nigra, Linn., var. alba (Linn.); Hippophae rhamnoides, 
Linn., Hydrocharis Morsus-rane, Linn., Polypogon monspeliensis, 
Desf., &c. 
Mr. D. A. Boyd exhibited a specimen of Solanwm nigrum, 
Linn., from the sea-shore near Chapelton, West Kilbride. He 
also showed flowering branches of Catalpa syringeefolia, H. K., 
from a garden at St. John’s Wood, London. The tree is a native 
of North America, and is occasionally grown in this country. 
Mr. John Renwick exhibited an abnormal flower of Viola, from 
the garden of Mr. Alexander Sweet, Cathcart, having three spurs 
instead of one at the base of the corolla. 
Professor Thomas King submitted spores of Zlletia decipiens 
(Pers.) for examination under the microscope. He stated that 
the fungus occurs as a parasite in the ovaries of Agrostis vulgaris, 
With., and produces the dwarfed condition of that grass which 
was formerly described under the name of var. pumila. 
Mr. Thomas Steel, Sydney, N.S.W., a former member of the 
Society, contributed a paper on ‘Cannibals and Cannibalism,” 
in which he described some of the ways in which cannibalism 
is practised by savage tribes, and its effects on the races who 
indulge in it. He stated that his information had been derived 
from Maoris and Fijians who had themselves at one time been 
cannibals. 
WINTER SESSION 1893-94. 
26TH SEPTEMBER, 1893. 
Mr. William Stewart, Vice-President, in the chair. 
Mr. Daniel Dewar, Curator, Botanic Gardens, was elected an 
Ordinary Member. 
Mr. John Cairns, Jun., reported on an excursion made on 
16th inst. to Dungoyne, the extreme north-west peak of the 
