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simplex, Ridley, a new species, which has no assimilating leaf 

 subtending the spike. The plant came from Sumatra, and was 

 found growing on the ground in dark wet forests. 



Dr. Lang showed a prothallus of Scolopendrium vulgare, 

 Syraons, raised by the late Mr. E. J. Lowe, F.R.S., which had 

 been sown 16 years before, and had produced numerous aposporous 

 plants, which he at the same time exhibited. He also showed 

 Anthoceros jjwtictatiis and Pellia calycina, from a potato-field near 

 Bearsden, and fi'om Castlebar, County Mayo, Aneura inctirvata, 

 Lindl. 



Mr. D. T. Gwynne-Vaughan, M. A. (Cantab.), exhibited 20 

 species of Mycetozoa from this district, four of which were not 

 reported in the British Association List. These were Ceratiomyxa 

 niucida, Schr., from Strathblane ; Fuliyo ocaracea, Peck, from 

 Strathblane ; Hemitrichia ruliforrnis. Lister, from Strathblane ; 

 and Brefeldia maxima, Rost., from Campsie Glen. 



Professor Bower then gave an account, gathered from the 

 University records, of Botanical enterprise in the College in the 

 18th century (see page 121). 



Dr. Bower was most heartily thanked for his lecture, and for 

 the hospitality extended to the Society by the University. 



Mr. Peter Macnair, Art Galleries, Kelvingi'ove, was elected an 

 Ordinary Member. 



The following additions to the Library of the Society were 

 announced : — The Journal of the Linnean Society — Botany, 

 17 vols., from Mr. A. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S. ; The Forester — 

 a Practical Treatise on Tress, by James Brown, from Mr, John 

 Fleming ; The Study of Animal Life, by J. Arthur Thomson, 

 from Mr. James Mitchell ; Moiograph of the Land and Fresh- 

 water Mollusca of the British Isles, by J. N. Taylor, Part 9 ; 

 Classification of the Animal Kingdom, by H. A. Nicholson ; 

 Invertebrate Zoology, by H. S. Pratt ; The Sagacity and Morality 

 of Plants, by J. E. Taylor, by purchase. 



22nd December, 1903. 



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

 On behalf of Mr. M'Culloch, Mr. John Paterson exhibited a 

 Grey Hen, assuming the plumage of the Blackcock (Tetrao tetrix, 



