380 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
Professor G. Bell Todd, M.B., C.M., exhibited and described a 
large collection of dried plants, made in Australia, by Baron Fred. 
von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., Government Botanist, 
Victoria. These consisted chiefly of ferns and their allies, but 
embraced also many flowering plants and shrubs, almost all of 
them belonging to orders represented in this country. 
Mr. D. M‘Lellan, late Superintendent of Parks, Glasgow, 
exhibited two cones of Pinus ponderosa, Dougl., which had been 
obtained at Hamburg House, Droitwich, Worcestershire, the 
seat of Sir Harry Vernon. This noble species of pine was first 
found by Mr. Harting on the mountains of Santa Cruz, and 
named by him in compliment to George Bentham, late Secretary 
of the London Horticultural Society. Itis said to attain a height 
of 220 feet, with girth of 28 feet. The cones are borne in clusters 
of from three to four together, each mature cone measuring 6 inches 
in length by 24 inches in breadth. The tree is quite hardy, and 
very valuable for its timber. 
Mr. John Paterson, owing to the kindness of Mr. Allan Gilmour, 
Yr., of Eaglesham, exhibited a Great Snipe (Gallinago major, 
Gmel.), which that gentleman had shot on his property on 27th 
September last. The fact was recalled that it was thirty-one 
years since this species was last exhibited to the Society, although 
in 1885 a pair was shot at Clydebank in May, an unusual season 
for the Great Snipe to occur in this country, as its appearances are 
almost confined to the period of the autumn migration. It has 
occurred, though but sparingly, in nearly all the Scottish faunal 
areas. 
Mr. A, Somerville, B.Sc., F.L.S., on behalf of Mr. F. Lockhart 
Robertson, showed a young Oak tree (Quercus Robur, Linn.), 
11 inches in height, and having a root 41 inches long. This 
seedling had grown to the extent mentioned in twenty months, 
from an acorn suspended over water. 
Professor King exhibited a number of plants, in fruit, from 
Buckinghamshire, including Datura Stramonium, Linn. 
26TH Novemspsr, 1895. 
_ Professor Thomas King, President, in the chair. 
Mr. F. J. Hanbury, F.L.S., F.E.S., and Mr. Edward E. Prince, 
