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College; Mr. D. T. Gwynne-Vaughan, M.A. (Cantab.), 16 Law- 

 rence Street. Hillliead ; Mr. James Hunter, Braehead House, 

 Cathcart, were elected as Ordinary Members. 



Mr. John Renwick made suitable reference to the death of Mr. 

 W. Craibe Angus, the well-known authority on art, who had been 

 a Member of the Society for 31 years. His particular branch of 

 study had been the British avifauna, and on this subject he had 

 contributed papers of much interest. 



The President then delivered a short address. After thanking 

 the Members of the Society for the honour they had done him in 

 electing him to the office he now filled, he proceeded to make 

 special reference to the Society itself, and to the position which 

 it occupies in virtue of its nearly fifty years of existence, its 

 volumes of Transactions published throughout that period, its 

 valuable library, and its roll of 250 Members. He referred to 

 the variety of departments in nature study open to the student, 

 and pled for systematic work so that the meetings and excursions 

 might be as profitable as possible. It was to the Society's credit 

 that, in connection with the coming of the British Association to 

 Glasgow in 1901, the services of so many of its Members had been 

 laid under requisition in the preparation of the lists of the plants 

 and animals of the Clyde valley and estuary. Allusion was made 

 to the connection existing between the Society and the Millport 

 Marine Biological Station, the chairman and the executive of 

 which were all INIembers of the Society. The address closed with 

 an appeal for additional Members, in order that, with an increased 

 income, the special expenses of the Society's approaching jubilee 

 year, 1901, might be the more easily met. 



Mr. C, Sherry exhibited a specimen of a Blue Moss, believed to 

 be a species of Climacium, received direct from Japan, where the 

 sender stated it to be locally plentiful. The colour of the plant 

 was declared to be due to no artificial cause. 



On behalf of Dr. T. F. Gilmour there was exhibited a specimen 

 of the Death's Head Motli, Acherontia atropos, L., obtained in 

 August last near Port-Ellen, Islay. According to Mr. Chas. G. 

 Barrett, F.E.S., author of the magnificent work on the British 

 Lepidoptei-a now being issued, this is a first record of the occur- 

 rence of the insect in the Hebrides. 



Mr. Robert Brown, M.D., laid on the table an interesting 



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