VOL. II. 



PART V. 



TRANSACTIONS 



OF 



@^p ^binbupgl^ fMb JQatupalisfs' anb 



SESSION 1890-91 



PAGE 



I. A Description of Kumaon, in the Central Himalayas. — Dr Wm. 



Watson, President, 393 



II. The Kingfisher.— Mr T. Speedy 411 



III. The Common Lump-fish.— Mr Sommerville Grieve 413 



IV. Plant Multiplication.— Mr M. King 416 



V. The "Green Balls" of Loch Kildonan.— Mr T. B. Sprague, F.B.S.E.. 420 



VI. Natural History Notes.— Mr R. Stewart, S.S.C 422 



VII. The Structure and Life-History of a Sponge.— Mr J. Lindsay, 428 



VIII. Birds of the Great Glen.— Mr A. Craig 439 



IX. The Andromeda Family.— Mr H. Fraser, 457 



X. On Vegetable Ivory {toith Plate).— TUt T. Wright, ... 459 



XI. How I Robbed the Eagle's Nest, and Why.— Mr T. Speedy, . 463 

 XII. On a Peculiar Mode of Fishing in the Estuary of the Thames.— 



Mr A. B. Herbert 467 



XIII. A "Colonial " Herbarium Specimen. — Mr J. H. Wilson, D.Sc, 



F.R.S.E 469 



XIV. Bear and Wolf Children.— Mr Symington Grieve, .... 476 

 XV. List of Plants gathered at Excursions, 1890.— The Secretary, . 477 



Annual Business Meeting, 479 



Index to Volume, 481 



List of Members, 1890-91 xxv 



Pui)ligf)Jti fot tfje Societg 



BY 



WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS 



MDCCCXCI 

 Price to Non-Memhers, Ilalf-a-Croivn. 



