Ixxxii TROCEEDINGS OK THE 



M.A., Mr. Robert Grierson, Mr. Duncan M'Laren, Mr. Joseph 

 Sommerville, and Mr. Duncan Mackenzie, Members of Council— 

 the Council beingf as follows : President, Professor F. O. Bower, 

 D.Sc. F.R.S., F.R.S.E., F.L.S. : Vice-Presidents, Robert Turner, 

 William Stewart, and R. S. Wishart, M.A. ; Secretaries, D. A. 

 Boyd and James Steel ; Treasurer, John Renwick ; Librarian, 

 James J. F. X. King, F.E.S. ; Members of Council, Professor 

 Thomas King, James Barrie Low, M.A., Duncan Mackenzie, 

 David Pearson, Peter Ewing, Johnston Shearer, Christopher 

 Sherry, Joseph Sommerville, Robert Edgar, M.A., Robert Grier- 

 son, Duncan M'Laren, and Professor Edward E. Prince, B.A., 

 F.L.S. 



Messrs. W. A. Dobie and James Mitchell were appointed 

 Auditors for the ensuing year. 



The following wei-e elected Ordinary Members : Mr. James 

 Clark, Chapel House, Paisley ; Mr. Hector Dove, B.Sc, 19 St. 

 Andrew's Road, PoUokshields ; Mr. Samuel C. B. Edgar, 15 

 Lumsden Street, Overnewton ; Mr. John Poison, Westmount, 

 Paisley ; and Mr. James Swanson, M.A., M.B., CM., 20 Wood- 

 lands Road. 



Professor Thomas King exhibited specimens of Elymus are- 

 narlus L., from Lossiemouth, Lactarius obmibilus, Lasch., from 

 Dollar, and various other Fungi from the latter district. 



Mr. D. A. Boyd showed numerous specimens of Lichens from 

 West Kilbride and Largs, including Collemn niqrescens (Huds.) 

 Ach., Plati/sma scvpincola (Ehrh.) Nyl., Stlctina fuliginosa 

 (Dicks.) Nyl., Parmelia scortea, Ach., P. ornphalodes (L.) Nyl., 

 P. caperata (L.) Ach., P. Borreri, Turn., Lecanora coccinea, 

 Dicks., L. tartarea (L.) Ach., etc. 



Mr. Boyd also showed specimens of the aecidiospores of 

 Uromi/ces parnassice (DC), found on leaves of Parnassia 

 palustris at Killin ; uredospores of Puccinia o.ryrice, Fckl., 

 found on leaves of Oxyria digyna on Craig Chailliach ; and 

 ^cidium prunellm. Winter, found on leaves of Prunella 

 vulgaris at Killin. He stated that these fungi had all been 

 gathered during the third week of July. 



24:TH November, 1891. 



Professor Thomas King in the Chair. 



Professor Edward E. Prince, B.A., F.L.S., exhibited 

 specimens of Amphioxus lanceolatus, Yarrell, from the Mediter- 

 ranean, and described the remaikable morphological features 

 presented by this fish, which he regarded as illustrative of a 

 degraded rather than primitive type. 



Mr. David Robertson exhibited specimens of Anteronyx 

 Loveni, Mont., dredged in from 50 to 60 fathoms water in 

 Lower Loch Torridon. 



