12 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



I don't know how far any of these sections carried their 

 work, as I left Glasgow in February, 1852, but, as far as the 

 geological section was concerned, I have still notes of a meeting 

 of that section on May llrth, 1850. At it several papers on local 

 geology were mentioned as having been obtained, which had 

 originally appeared in the Highland Society's Transactions. 

 One of these was by Dr. Rankin on the geology of Carluke, 

 and this was interleaved and annotated by the author so as to 

 bring up the subject to that date, these notes having been made 

 expressly for the section. The existence of eight other papers 

 on local geology, and their titles, was intimated. 



I cannot find any further notes of the section's work, but an 

 agent was obtained and set to work on the fossils of the Upper 

 Ward. Through him (Mr. Dorem) a large number of fossils 

 was obtained, and on the 4th December, 1850, I exhibited a 

 number of them, with notes, to the Philosophical Society. 

 The specimens shown were from a mass of upwards of 1,500, 

 which at the time were laid out on tables in one of the rooms 

 of the Andersonian, but which, I have been told, have long 

 since been swept away as rubbish. The selection exhibited 

 were from five different localities — Brockley, Craigbank, Trows, 

 Coalburn, and Auchinbeg, all in the Lesmahagow district. I 

 need not trouble you with any details of these notes, but I may 

 mention that one of the specimens enabled Dr. Scouler to decide 

 a point of which he was not before certain, namely, that the 

 spines which characterise one of the species of the fossil Pro- 

 ductus are hollow. 



I have not been able to find any records of work done by 

 the other sections, but that work was done and some of its 

 fruits recorded is, I think, shown by the early records of the 

 Natural History Society. Thus, I find that at its third meeting, 

 on 5th August, 1851, Mr. John Gray read a paper " On the 

 Hydrocanthari of the West of Scotland," with illustrative 

 specimens. On the 4th October of same year. Dr. Lorrain 

 gave " Some Observations on Helices." On 6th January, 1852, 

 Mr. Roger Kennedy submitted " Contributions to the Natural 

 History of Clydesdale, from the Flora and Fauna of Gourock." 

 On 6th April, 1852, Dr. Landsborough sent " Some Observa- 

 tions on EippoDioa divaricata" and Mr. H. D. Graham, lona. 



