372 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
Proceedings of the Society. 
SUMMER SESSION, 1895. 
287TH May, 1895. 
Professor Thomas King, President, in the chair. 
Reports were read of excursions to Strathleven, Cochno, and 
Lee Castle, by Mr. John Renwick; to the Redlands Conserva- 
tories, Kelvinside, by Rev. G. A. Frank Knight, M.A.; and to 
Kilmalcolm, by Mr. Johnston Shearer. (See pp. 358, 359.) 
It was resolved to send congratulations to Mr. George R. Milne 
Murray, F.L.S., a Corresponding Member of the Society, and 
Secretary of the Committee for the Exploration of the Marine 
Flora of the West of Scotland, on the occasion of his appointment 
as Keeper of the Botanical Department, British Museum, in suc- 
cession to Mr. William Carruthers, F.R.S., retired. 
The Society also agreed to take part in the movement to have 
the portrait of Mr. Carruthers (an Hon. Member) painted, to 
commemorate his recent successful presidency of the Linnean 
Society of London. 
A copy of the newly-issued ninth edition of the ‘“ London 
Catalogue of British Plants,” by Mr. F. J. Hanbury, F.LS., 
presented to the Society by Mr. A. Somerville, B.Sc., F.L.S., was 
laid on the table. This edition, which follows its predecessor 
after nine years, embraces 1,958 species, with varieties in addition. 
Mr. John Paterson exhibited Fringilla montifringilla, Linn., 
the Brambling, a finch whose breeding home is in the birch forests 
of Scandinavia. In Britain the Brambling is a winter visitant, 
and it appears sometimes in enormous flocks ; but on the western 
watershed it is much rarer than on the eastern, and in the Clyde 
area it is far from common. During the recent severe weather it 
was observed in Renfrewshire. 
Professor King submitted a coloured plate illustrating Argylia 
canescens, D. Don, a plant belonging to the natural order Big- 
noniacez, which flowered in a cool house at Kew in 1893-94, 
