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remarked that Mr. Harvie-Brown seems not to have been able to 

 obtain specimens of any bat from that island, though he states 

 that they are " said to occur." Dr. Gilmour had previously 

 recorded the presence both of the Pipistrelle and Long-Eared Bat 

 in the Annals of Scott. Xat. Hist., July, 1897, p. 191. The 

 Pipistrelle is not uncommon in Islay, and has been secured in 

 various parts of the island. The long-eared species is rarer, and 

 Dr. Gilmour had only seen it twice, once in June, 1897, and now 

 on tliis occasion, when a specimen had been brought to him by 

 the gardener at Kildalton, who remarked that they were to be 

 seen frequently. As the Gaelic names for the two species are not 

 aUke, the latter being called by a name signifying " horned," there 

 is in this a proof that both have been known long enough to have 

 acquired distinctive names. 



Colonel Harington-Stuart, of Torrance, East Kilbride, exhibited 

 eleven different species of Parasitic Fungi from Natal. Among 

 these were Aecidium ocimi, P. Henn. ; A. royenae, Cke. 

 A. ornamentale, Kalch. ; Puccinia ipomcea, Cke. ; P. phyllocladia 

 Cke., on Asparagus falcatus, L. ; Physalospora chienostoma 

 Cephaleuros virescens, Kunz., on leaves of Ficus indica, L. 

 Asternia mac-oivaniana, Kalch., on Celastrus buxifolia, L. 

 Uredo celaslrince, Cke., on Salacia Kraussii, Harv. 



The Colonel also presented to the Society several books, forming 

 part of a series, on " The Plants of South Africa," and received 

 the thanks of the meeting. 



A communication was read from the President, Mr. Alex. 

 SomerviUe, B.Sc, F.L.S., on the cases of poisoning which had 

 recently taken place on the Island of Cumbrae, several lads 

 having received poison from eating the berries of an unknown 

 plant by the wayside. The plant, the President had discovered, 

 was Oenanthe crocata, L., the Hemlock Water Dropwort. 



The Chairman read extracts from a paper contributed by Mr. 

 F. G. Pearcey, Naturalist on the s.s. " Garland," of the Fishery 

 Board for Scotland, on the "Firth of Forth Deposits." 

 (See page 217.) 



