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this species are found many large air-spaces. Mr Macvicar 

 mentions that he has not before received this species from 

 any part of Scotland. In the Glencorse reservoir it covers 

 spaces measuring several yards in diameter. 4. Eiccia glau- 

 cescens, or Lescuriana, occurs in the Clubbiedean reservoir, but 

 only very sparingly. 5. Biccia fluitans. — This species is 

 found floating in water, but fruit is only got on plants 

 growing on the earth, at the margins of pools. It is very 

 plentiful, along with Fossovibronia cristata, on the bank of 

 the burn connecting Threipmuir and Harlaw reservoirs. 



EXHIBITS IN NATUBAL HISTOBY. 



During the past session the following objects were exhibited 

 at the evening meetings of the Society : — 



A collection of plants from the Flannan Islands ; by Mr 

 Eagle Clarke. Specimen of Sirex gigas found suffocated in 

 a gas-pipe in Dunfermline, with the piece of pipe showing the 

 circular hole bored in it ; by Mr James Adams. Specimens of 

 plants from Caithness, including the Holy Grass (Bierochloe 

 borecdis), Ajuga pyramidalis, &c. ; by Mr E. A. Calder. 

 Scorpion (AracJmida Scorpio), tarantula [Mygale Henzii), 

 horned toad {Phrynosoma), centipede {Scolopendra morsitans), 

 and trap-door spider {Cteniza californica) ; by the Honorary 

 Secretary. The rare fungus, Hypocrea riccioidea (Berk.), and 

 five species of Eiccia from the Pentlands; by Mr James 

 M' Andrew. Living Canadian owl ; by Mr John Pursell. 

 Beekites, being chalcedonised fragments of fossiliferous lime- 

 stone from a conglomerate cliff at Torquay ; by Miss Beatrice 

 Sprague. A water-colour sketch of the azure tit (Fmnis 

 cyamis), Scandinavian forests ; by Mr Herbert. Giant beetle, 

 from Dominica, West Indies, and humming-bird's nest; by 

 Miss E. Elliot. A nest of living ants (Foi-mica flava) ; by 

 Mr W. C. Crawford. White lark (Alauda arvensis), redwing 

 {Ticrdus iliams), starling (Sturmis vulgaris), siskin and green- 

 finch hybrid ; by Mr G. M. Brotherston. 



