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showed, for comparison with the muinmied head, several skulls 

 of F. domestica, and made some remarks on their morphological 

 features. 



Mr. Geoi'^e Russell exhibited a raceme of Dendrohium nobile, 

 Lindl., having the flowers abnormally developed on the stem. 

 A similar specimen was exhibited by Mr. Peter Ewing, Vice- 

 President, who made some remarks on the probable cause of 

 the abnormality. 



Mr. Johnston Shearer showed a piece of Paper made from 

 the inner bark of a tree in the Shan Country of Upper 

 Burmah, and gave an account of the process of manixf acture. * 



Mr. D. A. Boyd showed specimens of Photna laininarice, 

 C. & M., a fungus recently described in Grevillea by Messrs. 

 Cooke and Massee. It occurs in spring on decaying and half- 

 bleached fronds of Laminaria digitata which have been cast 

 ashore during the storms of winter and stranded above the 

 ordinary tide-naark. The fungus seems to be abundant on the 

 Ayrshire coast near West Kilbride. 



Mr. Boyd also showed examples of Gloeosporium cinctum, 

 B. & C, a fungus discovered by Mr. George Russell on dead 

 leaf-tips of Dendrohium, Odontoglossion, Miltonia, and other 

 exotic orchids at Redlands, Kelvinside, and by Mr. Boyd in the 

 Glasgow Botanic Gardens. Specimens have been submitted to 

 Dr. M. C. Cooke, who has pronounced the species new to 

 Britain. 



Mr. David Robertson, F.L.S., F.G.S., submitted a paper on 

 the "Habits of a Hedgehog {Eritiaceus europcsus) in Domesti- 

 cation." t 



Mr. R. Broom, M.B., CM., B.Sc, stated that personal obser- 

 vation had established the fact that the female Hedgehog 

 occasionally devours her offspring. 



Mr. C. O. Sonntag remarked that in Germany it is often said 

 that the Hedgehog cannot be poisoned. In one instance, which 

 came under his own observation, a Hedgehog seemed to sustain 

 no injury from a strong dose of arsenic sufficient to kill a much 

 larger animal. In some parts of Switzerland, Northern Italy, 

 etc., the skin of the animal is used by the poorer classes for the 

 manufacture of caps. 



The following papers were read : 



"The Land and Fresh-water Mollusca of Bute," by Mr. Thomas 

 Scott, F.L.S., Corresponding Member. J 



"Notes on the Rarer Plants of the Parish of Old KUpatrick," 

 by Mr. L. Watt. § 



* Transactions, vol. iii; p. 25Q. t /bid., p. 193. : /bid., p. 170. § /bid., p. 182. 



