PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 159 
Hill, Duncan Mackenzie, James Steel, W. A. Dobie, David 
Pearson, William Stewart, Robert D. Wilkie. 
Messrs. Thomas G. Bishop and Johnston Shearer were 
appointed Auditors for the ensuing year. 
On the motion of the President, a vote of thanks was awarded 
to retiring office-bearers, and particularly to Mr. D, A. Boyd, who 
‘ had acted as Secretary for the last ten years. 
Mr, Andrew J. Kirkpatrick, 179 West George Street, was 
elected a Life Member; Messrs. Thomas F. Glen, 14 Annfield 
Place, Dennistoun, and Robert Lang, Fullarton Place, Johnstone, 
were elected Ordinary Members. 
Reports were submitted on the Society’s recent excursions to 
Kilmahew (see page 61), Blairquhosh (p. 121), and Finlaystone 
(p. 61). 
Mr. Frank L. Grant, M.A., exhibited red and black varieties 
of the Adder (elias Berus) from Arran ; also, for comparison, a 
Ringed Snake (Z'’ropidonotus Natrix), upon which he made some 
remarks. He also showed a skin cast by a Snake in the Kelvin- 
grove Museum, and drew attention to the fact that the process of 
casting is so complete as to include the divestiture of the thin 
outer covering of the eyes. 
Mr. D. A. Boyd, Vice-President, showed specimens, gathered 
at Kilmahew, of oak-leaves bearing the galls known as “ oak- 
spangles,” which are produced by Veuroterus lenticularis, Adler. 
He also exhibited specimens of Gauliheria Shallon, a North 
American evergreen shrub which is frequently grown in this 
country ; and ripe fruit of the wild strawberry gathered on 27th 
inst. at Hexham, Northumberland. 
Professor Thomas King, President, exhibited ripe fruit of 
Castanea sativa, from Bute, and stated that the seed is seldom 
fully developed in Scotland, unless in very favourable seasons such 
as that of 1893. He also showed numerous fungi from West 
_ Kilbride, including Agaricus (Lepiota) carcharias, Pers., A. 
(Mycena) pterigenus, Fr., Panus siipticus (Bull.), Leptoglossum 
vuride (Pers.), Hymenoscypha (Trichoscypha) coronata (Bull.), 
Puccinia chrysosplenii, Grev., ke. 
Mr. Thomas B. Wilkie submitted specimens of Aulacomnium 
androgynum, Linn., from Cadder, which he stated was apparently 
an addition to the moss-flora of Clydesdale. 
