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region ; and the Ai-k at Millport, which has been placed at their 

 disposal, will be the working head-qnarters during the summer 

 months. Mr. Murray indicated that Members of the Society- 

 might serve the Committee by collecting and forwarding to 

 him specimens of Seaweeds gathered on the West Coast, and 

 north of the Clyde area, or on any of the Islands, with precise 

 information as to localities, for the piu'pose of enabling him 

 to name and record the species ; and he expressed his willing- 

 ness to communicate with any who might wish to help the 

 Committee in this work, and to give them all necessary infor- 

 mation on the subject. 



Mr. Robert Broom, M.B., CM., B.Sc, exhibited a head of a 

 Cyclopean Lamb, on which he made some remarks. 



Mr. Robert H. Read, C.E., M.B.O.U., exhibited various Nests 

 and Eggs of British Birds. These included nests of the Caper- 

 cailzie from Loch Lomond district ; a series of nests of the Sedge 

 T\"arbler, Robin, Chaffinch, Hedge Sparrow, Titlark, Twite, etc., 

 each containing an egg of the Cuckoo ; eggs of Guillemot from 

 Flamborough and St. Kilda ; eggs of Razorbill from Ailsa Craig ; 

 nests of Common Tern and Lesser Tern from Teutsmuir, Fife- 

 shire, etc. Mr. Read also showed a series of models of eggs of 

 the Great Auk. 



Mr. D. A. Boyd showed some very beautiful specimens of 

 Lachnea {Sarcoscypha) coccinea (Jacq.), from Portincross, 

 Ayi'shire, 



The Chairman (Professor Bower) delivered a presidential 

 addi'ess, taking for his subject " The Botanic Gardens of 

 Glasgow." After reviewing the history of the gardens, he made 

 some remarks on their present position and prospects of future 

 development. It was with reference to the museum question, 

 of which so much had recently been heard in Glasgow, that he 

 saw a special opportunity of future development in the gai'dens. 

 If there was one subject more than another in science for which 

 Scotland as a whole, and Clydesdale as much as any other 

 district, had shown a special aptitude, it was botany. Whether 

 in horticulture, or in the study of plants in the open coimtry, 

 Scotchmen had taken a prominent place. The fact that more 

 than 2000 persons had entered the gate of the Botanic Gardens 

 in one day, when the charge for admittance was one penny 

 each, showed how wide-spread was the interest in plants among 

 the population of Glasgow. The City Corporation had already 

 shown their recognition of this aptitude in a most practical 

 way, and they were disposed to take steps for the further 

 improvement of the gardens. He took this opportunity of 

 indicating a further important line of development which would 

 gi'eatly add to the attractions of the gardens for the general 

 public. He would advocate the establishment of a Natural 

 History Museum, separate from the proposed general museum 



