Contents. 



V. The Magpie.— Mr A. Campbell . 



VI. Birds of Kintail, Ross-shire.— Mr A. Craig 

 VII. A Badger Colony in Dalmeny Park.— Mr C. Campbell 

 VIII. Supplementary Note on the Great Auk or Garefowl (Alca 

 impennis Linn.) (with five. Plates).— Mr S. Grieve 

 IX. The Kea, or New Zealand Parrot.— Mr T. Speedy 

 X. The Upper Elf Loch, Braids [First Paper).— Messrs T. Scott, 

 F.L.S., and J. Lindsay 

 Plant Origins (Report from the Microscopical Section).— Mr 



W. C. Crawford, F.R.S.E. 

 Microscopical and Natural History Exhibition . 

 Notes on Last Summer's Excursions. — Dr Davies 

 Exhibits in Natural History .... 

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SESSION 1897-98. 



. The Illustration of Birds' Nests by Photography.— Mr H 



Raeburn .... 

 , Microscopic Life. — Miss Sprague 

 , Microscopy and some of its Uses.— Mr W. Blacklock 

 Corals and Coral Islands, with Special Reference to the New 



Hebrides Group. — Rev. J. H. Lawrie 

 Additional Notes on the Great Auk or Garefowl (Alca impennis 



Linn.) — Mr Symington Grieve . 

 Castings of Owls. — Mr A. B. Herbert 

 Wasps : Their Life- History and Habits.— Mr A. Murray 

 Daubenton's Bat. — Mr C. Campbell . 

 On the Diatomaceie. — Mr J. Russell . 

 The Upper Elf Loch, Braids (Second Paper).— Messrs T. Scott 



F.L.S., and J. Lindsay (with Plate) 

 A Pet Cuckoo. — Mr C. Campbell 

 Notes on a few rare Mosses. — Mr A. Murray . 

 Conversazione, and Microscopic and Natural History Exhibi 

 tion (with Programme and Plan of Hall). — Mr W 

 Williamson 

 Plants which dissipate Energy (Report from the Microscopical 



Section).— Mr W. C. Crawford, M.A., E.R.S.E. 

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Index to Volume 

 Lists of Members, 1891-98 . 

 Portrait of Dr T. B. Sprague, President} 

 ii Andrew Moffat, Secretary ) 



Rules, as revised in November 1894 



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