TKANSACTIONS. 



INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



rpHE Edinburgh Naturalists' Field Club was instituted in 

 -*- 1869 for the practical study of Natural History in all 

 its branches. For a number of years the work of the Club 

 was carried on by a series of field-meetings only — held princi- 

 pally during the months of May, June, and July. It was 

 then thought that it would be for the interests of the Club 

 to hold a series of evening meetings during the winter months, 

 at which papers bearing on the work of the Club in the field 

 and otherwise might be read and discussed. At the annual 

 meeting of the Club in November 1879, it was agreed to 

 hold such evening meetings, which were at once arranged for, 

 and met with a large measure of success. The resolution to 

 publish Transactions not having been adopted till November 

 1881, it has been thought desirable to put on record a list 

 of the papers read, and objects in Natural History exhibited, 

 at the meetings during the two previous Sessions. 



SESSION 1879-80. 



" Colonsay." By Mr Symington Grieve. 



" Recollections of Sutlierlandshire." By Mr Arch. Craig, jim. 

 "A collection of British Mosses" made by Mr Grieve during 

 1879. 



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