92 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



Proceeding's of the Society. 



SESSION 1902-1901 



30th September, 1902. 



Mr. Alex. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



Mr. Archibald Park, 57 Dalhousie Street, and Mr. John 

 Douglas, Mount Devon, Holmhead Road, Cathcart, were elected 

 Ordinary Members. 



A report on the Society's excursion, on 23rd August, to the 

 Marine Biological Station at Millport, contributed by the Curator 

 of the station, Mr. Alex. Gray, was read by Mr. J. J. Robertson 

 (see page 87). 



Mr. David Bruce exhibited the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus 

 anglorum, Temminck), with its egg; and also the egg of the 

 Fulmar Petrel {Fulmarus glacialis, L.), brought from the 

 Flannan Isles. Mr. Bruce also read a paper descriptive of a 

 recent visit to Loch Roag, Lewis, furnishing data, with descrip- 

 tive explanation, regarding birds observed in the Outer 

 Hebrides in nesting seasons during the last sixteen years (see 

 page 5). 



On behalf of Mr. George Paxton, there were shown fresh 

 specimens of the Flax-dodder, Cuscuta Epilinum, Weihe. Mr. 

 John Ren wick, who exhibited the plant, read a short statement 

 regai'ding this destructive parasite. He described the nature of 

 the plant, mentioning that, without leaves or cotyledons or 

 chlorophyll, and, except at the commencement of its career, 

 without root, the Dodder twines round the stem of its host, 

 attaching itself by means of haustoria or suckers, and through 

 these it absorbs the juices of the host. Then he stated : — 



" Mr. George Paxton has sent this specimen to me from the 

 West of Scotland Experimental Farm at Holmes, Kilmarnock, 

 and I exhibit it on his behalf, along with some photographs of 

 the plant twining round its host. I shall give a brief account 



