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that Mr. Peter Cameron exhibited specimens of the aecidium 

 stage under the name of Roestalia cornuta, and again, in 1884, 

 in a paper entitled ' The Hetersecism of the Uredines,' by the 

 late Mr. Robert Turner, it is referred to several times — probably 

 with illustrations." 



Mr. Ewing also exhibited a large collection of fresh alpine 

 plants from Ben Cailleach. These included Saxifraga oppositi- 

 foUa, L., S. atellaris, L., S. hypnoides, L, *S'. nivalis, L., 8. 

 azoides, L., Silene acaulis, L., Upilobium alpinum, L., Listera 

 cordata, R. Br., Poa alpina, L., Luzula spicata, DC, and Bryas 

 octopetala, L. 



Mr. John Paterson read a very interesting paper on " Birds 

 observed on the Clyde between the Broomielaw and the Red 

 Bridge below Uddingston," and gave a list, with many additional 

 particulars, of eighty-six different species (see page 58). There 

 was a general feeling of astonishment that such a number of 

 species of birds should be found haunting the Clyde so near the 

 city. 



A letter was read from Mr. H. P. Macmillan, Edinburgh, 

 acknowledging, on behalf of his mother, receipt of the letter 

 of condolence sent by the Society to the widow of the late 

 Rev. Hugh Macmillan, D.D., LL.D., F.R.S.E., a distinguished 

 Corresponding Member of the Society, in which thanks were 

 expressed for the sympathy shown in the recent bereavement. 



25th August, 1903. 



Mr. Peter Ewing, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



The President read a report of the Society's excursion to 

 Ben Laoigh on 18th July (see page 84). 



Mr. John Renwick read, on behalf of Mr. Alex. Gray, a report 

 of the excursion to the Marine Biological Station, Millport, on 

 15th August (see page 87). 



The Rev. G. A. Frank Knight, M.A., F.R.S.E., sent for ex- 

 hibition Pecten incomparabilis (Risso). [ = P- testae, Bivona] and 

 for comparison P. tigrinus (Miill) and P. striatus (Miill). He 

 also contributed the following notes on this rare mollusc : — 



" The specimens of Pecten incomparahilis I exhibit were sent 

 to me by Mr. Alfred Leicester, of Southport, some time ago, in 

 exchanore for some of the rarer Hebridean mollusca. Mr. Leicester 



