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many species of Saxifrage, but the most striking was S. cassia, L., 

 its blue-grey leaves beautifully recurved, firmly massed together, 

 and practically covered with white and yellowish flowers. On 

 descending to the green slopes, Dianthus superbus, var. grandi- 

 Jlorus, L., was seen in great profusion, from one to two feet in 

 height, the large fringed flowers having almost a dazzling 

 appearance in the sunshine. Botrychiuni btna7-ia, Sw., was 

 observed remarkably fine, and Serratula rhapontica, Dec, was 

 veiy sti'iking in its aspect. The latter, a rare plant, grows about 

 2 feet high, and the long flower stem is leafless for about a foot 

 at the top. The flower is light purple. On the slope of a 

 mountain near Pontresina, there were large plants of Semper- 

 vivum tectorum, L., with light red, and S. vml/eni, Hoppe, 

 with greenish yellow flowers, and as the colours were in profusion 

 and well mixed, the effect on the hillside was remarkable. 



21sT December, 1900. 



Mr. Alex. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



It was intimated that Dr. Robert Brown, Vice-President, had 

 accepted the ofiice of Senior Honorary Joint-Secretary, and that 

 Mr. H. B. Watt had agreed to act as the Society's representative 

 on the Committee of Management of the Millport Marine 

 Biological Station. 



The donors of further contributions to the fund for the 

 purchase of a lime-light lantern were thanked, and it was 

 intimated that the fund had reached £22. 



Mr. Anderson Fergusson exhibited two species of Coleoptera, 

 collected many years ago by Rev. J. E. Somerville, B.D., 

 F.S.A.Scot., viz., Pterostichus lepidus, F., found at ToUcross, 

 Lanarkshire (where Mr. Thos. G. Bishop also met with it 30 

 years ago), and Dytiscus lapponicus, Gyll., a large water beetle, 

 taken in hill tarns in the Island of Mull, and in County Donegal. 

 The former is a local species, distributed over the British Isles. 

 D. lapponiciis was discovered in Scotland in 1854 by Rev. H. 

 Clark, who obtained specimens in Mull, where Mr. Somerville 

 met with it between Loch Spelve and Loch Buy. It is a truly 

 hyperborean species, and occurs in lakes in Norway and Sweden, 

 and also in Northern Germany. 



