>.»t!^• la^P 



^. VOL. II. PART I. ^ 



TRANSACTIONS 



@I$F ^binbupgll Fi^Ii^ JQafupalisfs' anb 

 InCirrosrojEiirBl jSoriFfg 



SESSION 1886-87 ' "^-^i^^S 



CONTENTS. 



PAOE 



I. Opening Address.— Mr S. Grieve, President, 1 



II. Notes on Bird-Life.— Mr R. Stewart, S.S.C 12 



III. Polyporus giganteus, Fr.— Mr A. B. Steele 18 



IV. Exhibition of a White Sparrow.— The Secretary 19 



V. Apochromatic Object-Glasses.- Mr W. Forgan 21 



VI. Jottings on a Ramble in Wester Ross. — Iilr J. Allan, ... 23 

 VII. Ormiston Hall : Its Yew - tree and other Antiquities. — Mr J. 



Lindsay, 30 



VIII. The ParidaB, or Titmice.— Mr A. Craig 41 



IX. The Fossils of the Red Crag and Chalk Pits, Suffolk.— Miss M. 



M'Kean 61 



X. Notes on Some New and Rare British Plants.— Mr S. Grieve, 



President 55 



XI. On Dark-ground Illumination, as showing Peculiarities of certain 



Diatoms.— Mr W. Penman, Assoc. M.Inst.C.E., .... 57 



XII. Hume's Projection Microscope.— Mr W. Hume (Coimmmicated), . 61 



XIII. The Hare.— Mr Tom Speedy 64 



XIV. Swallows and Starlings Feeding in Concert.— Mr. A. B. Herbert, . 71 

 XV. Fawside or Falside Castle.— T. A. Douglas Wood, F.S.A.Scot., . 72 



XVI. List of the Less Common Plants gathered at the Excursions 



during 1886 and 1887, with Localities.— The Secretary, 79 



XVII. The Diatoms of Linlithgow Loch.— Mr J. Lindsay, .... 80 



XVIII. Grouse Disease.— Mr Tom Speedy, ....... 82 



Meetings of Microscopic Section, . 89 



Annual Business Meeting, 90 



List of Members, 1886-87 ix 



Publisfjcti tax tt)e Sccietg 



BY 



WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS 



MDCCCLXXXVII 



