PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. oO. 
Letters were read from Dr. Robert Broom, B.Sc., New South 
Wales, thanking the Society for electing him a Corresponding 
Member ; and from Mr. G. R. M. Murray, F.L.S., acknowledging 
the congratulations of the Society on his being appointed Keeper 
of the Botanical Department, British Museum. 
Reports on the excursions to Ballagan on June 29th, and to 
the Botanic Gardens on July 30th, were handed in. The excur- 
sion to Toward and Loch Striven, intimated on the syllabus card, 
had been abandoned, owing to unfavourable weather. 
Mr. Robert Dunlop exhibited, among others, the following 
Lepidoptera :—Smerinthus ocellatus, Linn., from Girvan; S. populi, 
Linn., and S. tiliw, Linn., from near Kilmarnock ; Acherontia 
atropos, Linn., from Anstruther, Fifeshire; Sphinx convolvuli, 
from Girvan; 8S. ligustri, Linn., from near Kilmarnock ; Deile- 
phila euphorbie, Linn., and D. galii, W.E., from Monkton, 
Ayrshire ; Cherocampa elpenor, Linn,, and C. porcellus, Linn., 
from Lendalfoot, Ayrshire; Macroglossa stellatarum, Linn., from 
Kirkcudbright ; and Sesia bembeciformis, Hub., from Airdrie. 
The Chairman, Mr. Stewart, brought forward a number of plants 
from Hawkhill Gardens, Largs. 
Mr. Stewart also exhibited a large number of fungi from Cadder 
Wilderness, the most notable one being Agaricus (Flammula) 
carbonarius, Fr.; and, on behalf of Professor King, he showed a 
series from Dunlop, including Crepidotus calolepis, Fr., a fungus 
only once before found in the west country, viz., by Mr. D. A. 
Boyd at West Kilbride. 
Mr. C. Sherry exhibited a specimen of the Killarney Fern, 
Trichomanes radicans, Sw., and made some remarks on its distri- 
_ bution. 
Mr. R. D. Wilkie brought forward a large, strong form of Ag. 
_ (Psalliota) campestris, L., the common field Mushroom, raised by 
cultivation, also a number of mosses, including TZrichostomum 
erispulum, Bruch., from Keppel; Pterogoniwm gracile, Sw., 
Encalypta ciliata, Hoffm., and Zygodon Stirtoni, Schp., from 
-Millport. 
Mr. James Steel exhibited the head and bill of Ornithorhynchus 
—anatinus (Shaw), the Australian Duck-mole; the skull of a 
- female Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus (Zimm.) ); and the tibia of 
the gigantic, now extinct, New Zealand bird, the Moa, Dinornis 
