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and women. The finest necklace is made of otter's teeth and the horns of 

 a very small antelope, called in the lahel on the necklace, " Peit ". These 

 horns are from 1 to 2 inches long, and taper to a point from the base, 

 which is about \ to \ inch in diameter. The scientific name of the animal 

 is Cephalopus pygmceus (or cceruleus) ; and it is said that the native name is 

 Ipete. It is popularly called Blue Buck, and Pete ; also Kleenbok. A long 

 account of its habits is given in Drummond's ' Large Game'. 



There were also exhibited two shell necklaces and a carved-wood comb, 

 sent from Samoa by the late Robert Louis Stevenson. 



Albatross. — The specimen exhibited was caught off the Cape of Good 

 Hope with a fishing-line and bait by a young medical man, who was acting 

 as surgeon on board a sailing-vessel trading between England and Australia. 

 It has been stuffed by Mr Small, George Street, Edinburgh, and measures 

 6 ft. 6 in. from the tip of one wing to the other. 



Flowers from Colorado. — This was a collection of showy flowers and other 

 plants which grew in the neighbourhood of Denver, Colorado, at elevations 

 between 5000 and 9000 feet above sea-level. The names of the plants 

 have been revised by a member of the Society, Mr James Terras, assistant 

 to the Professor of Botany ; and the list contains the following European 

 flowers : Alyssum maritimum, Arctostaphylus Uva-ursi or Bearberry, 

 Delphinium elatxim, Epilobium angustifolium, Equisetum arvense, Frag- 

 aria vesca or Wild Strawberry, Hierochloe borealis or Seneca Grass, 

 Lupinus hirsutus, Potentilla fruticosa, Salix alba, Wallflower (Cheiranthus 

 sp.) It includes also one Indian flower, Quamoclit vulgaris or Cypress 

 Vine. These seem all to be naturalized in America, but the following are 

 described as natives, in Asa Gray's ' Botany of the Northern United States ' : 

 Acer spicatum or Mountain Maple, Aconitum uncinatum, Aquilegia 

 cterulea, Argemone mexicana or Mexican poppy, Asclepias sp. or Milk- 

 weed, Castilleia coccinea, Corydalis aurea, Dodecatheon Meadia or Shoot- 

 ing-star, Erigeron or Western Daisy (two species), Potentilla simplex, Prunus 

 virginiana or Choke-cherry, Rhyncosia erecta, Ribes aureum or Buffalo- 

 currant, Rosa blanda, Rubus nutkanus or Flowering raspberry, and Thal- 

 ictrum dioicum. 



The following seem to be natives of the Southern United States, as the 

 names are not to be found in Gray's book : Euphorbia marginata, Oenothera 

 taraxifolia, Solanum rostratum, Cleome integrifolium or Skunkweed. 



Among the flowers of which the names are incompletely given, occurs a 

 very remarkable one to which the popular name of Buffalo-head is given : 

 it is a species of Pedicularis. 



By Mr W. Forgan, F.R.M.S. 



Instrument for Microscopical Drawing. — This instrument consisted of 

 a plane silver on glass mirror, the glass being silvered on the face by 

 Liebig's process, by which the image of the object is projected directly 

 down on the paper on the table without the observer having to look 

 through either the microscope or any form of accessory apparatus. In 

 this way the objects examined may be drawn at one's leisure, and the 



