390 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
same terms as those upon which the sum of £51 10s. had already 
been granted.. (See pages 299, 300.) 
26TH May, 1896, 
Professor Thomas King, President, in the chair. 
Mr. R. M. Morton reported on an excursion to Fiddler Gill 
(see page 364). Mr. R. D, Wilkie reported on an excursion to 
Brodick (see page 365). Mr, J. Cairns, Jun., on behalf of Mr. 
C. Sherry, reported on a visit to the Botanic Gardens (see page 
364). 
Professor King intimated that the Council were now in a 
position to relieve Mr. R. D. Wilkie, the Acting Secretary, as 
Mr. 8. M. Wellwood had agreed to become one of the Honorary 
Secretaries. Mr. Wilkie was heartily thanked for the very 
efficient manner in which he had discharged the duties of Secre- 
tary, which he had undertaken at an awkward emergency. 
Dr. David Robertson, F.L.8., F.G.S., sent for exhibition Por- 
cellio pictus, Brandt & Ratz, an Isopod Crustacean, from Great 
Cumbrae. This species is very characteristic, and easily dis- 
tinguished from all others. The head is black and three-lobed in 
front, strongly granulated. The median dorsal line is dark 
coloured, with a yellow irregular patch on each side down to the 
eighth and slightly to the ninth and tenth segments; the telson 
is triangular, short, and acute. Itis about three times as long as 
broad. It has been recorded from England and Ireland, and is — 
said to inhabit dry situations, such as the rubbish of old ruins 
and under dry leaves. The example exhibited was captured on a 
dry papered wall in a dwelling-house at Millport. Regarding the 
distribution of this Isopod Crustacean in Scotland, see the Society’s 
Proceedings, Vol, III. (N. §.), p. xvi. 
Mr. Symers M. MacVicar sent for exhibition, from Moidart, 
Ranunculus petiolaris, Marshall, and Ajuga pyramidalis, Linn. 
The first-named was described from specimens obtained near 
Kingshouse, Argyllshire, in 1892. It occurs also in Skye and in 
Sutherlandshire. The original root-leaves are reduced to sub- 
ulate petioles (hence the specific name given to the plant); the 
outer ones are recurved, and most of them disappear before the 
