382 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
Gardens; and Mr. George Paxton, Richardland House, Kiimar- 
nock, were elected as Ordinary Members. Miss Margaret Glass, 
18 Walmer Crescent, was admitted as an Associate. 
It was agreed to appoint an Editor of Transactions, and Mr. 
A. Somerville, B.Sc., F.L.S., was elected to the office. A Com- 
mittee, consisting of the Council, with the addition of Messrs. 
Joseph Somerville, D. A» Boyd, R. Grierson, and D, M‘Laren, 
was appointed to examine the Constitution and report. 
Owing to the creation of the office of Editor of Transactions, 
certain alterations in the Constitution were rendered necessary. 
(See page 383.) 
Mr. John Paterson exhibited a Spotted Crake (Porzana 
maruwetta, Leach), which had been shot on the River Add, 
Argyllshire, in August, 1893. In 1889 this species was not 
known to have occurred north-west of the Clyde (Saunders’s 
‘Manual of British Birds”), but since that date Mr. J. A. 
Harvie-Brown had been able to include it in his Vertebrate Fauna 
of Argyll on the strength of one authentic occurrence. 
On behalf of Mr. H. M‘Culloch, taxidermist, Mr. Paterson also 
exhibited a number of interesting birds which had reached him ~ 
recently for preservation. These were—a Great Grey Shrike 
(Lanius excubitor, Linn.), from Blantyre ; an Iceland Gull (Larus 
leucopterus, Faber), from Stornoway; and a Slavonian Grebe 
(Podicipes awritus (Linn.) ), from West Loch Tarbert. The first- 
named is a scarce winter visitor, but it has occurred at one time 
or another all round the Glasgow district. The Iceland Gull is 
somewhat erroneously so called, as it is only a winter visitor to 
that island, and breeds in Greenland and Arctic America. An 
interesting account of the occurrence of large numbers of this 
species in the Firth of Forth in 1873 appears in the Proceedings 
of this Society for that year, page 210. The Slavonian Grebe is, 
like the others sent by Mr. M‘Culloch, a winter visitor only, 
although it has been erroneously declared to breed in Scotland, 
and the statement has been widely circulated. (See the ‘ Annals 
of Scottish Natural History,” 1892, page 171.) 
Mr. P. Ewing, F.L.S., exhibited a collection of plants from Corn- 
wall and the Scilly Isles. Amongst them were—TZamari« gallica, 
Linn. ; Ulex nanus, Forst.; Carlina vulgaris, Linn.; Cuscuta 
Epilinum, Weihe; Lrica ciliaris, Linn.; Euphorbia Paralias, 
Linn, 
