PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



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Proceeding's of the Society. 



SESSION 1899-1900. 



26th September, 1899. 



Mr. Robert Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., President, in the chair. 



The Rev. G. A. F. Knight, M.A., reported on the Society's 

 excursion to Millport (see page 158). 



Mr. A. Adie Dalglish sent for exhibition Crambus lalistrius. 

 How., a moth rare in Clydesdale, which had recently been taken 

 by him at Irvine. 



Mr. Chas. Kirk exhibited a specimen of a white Song-thrush 

 (Turdus musicus, L.), which was shot by Col. R. C. Mackenzie 

 at East Kilbowie, in the parish of Old Kilpatrick, on the 8th 

 inst. In his description Mr. Kirk pointed out that the bird 

 could not properly be regarded as a pure albino, as the eyes were 

 of the usual hazel colour, and the feathers of the breast showed 

 incipient dark spots. Miss Zamorska exhibited fruits of Plataniis 

 orientalis, L., the eastern plane tree, from Smyrna. 



The Rev. G. A. F. Knight, M.A., read a paper entitled "The 

 Marine MoUusca of Port-Stewart, North Ireland : Notes taken 

 during a recent visit," in which a comparison was instituted 

 between the moUuscan fauna of the North of Ireland and that of 

 the Firth of Clyde (see page 1). 



27th October, 1899. 



Mr. Robert Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., President, in the chair. 



Mr. James Whitton read a report of an excursion of the 

 Society to Glamis, Forfarshire (see page 159). 



Mr. James F. Gemmill, M.A., M.B., CM., the Society's dele- 

 gate to the meeting of the British Association, read a report of 

 the meetings of the Association, held this year in Dover. 



