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In returning thanks, the Lord Provost said — I feel quite over- 

 whelmed with confusion, but I thank you very heartily, not 

 only for the kind expression of the Chairman, but for the 

 distinguished honour you have conferred upon me in electing 

 me to be one of tlie Honorary Members of the Society. I 

 shall cherish that in my imnost lieart, and I take this oppor- 

 tunity of thanking you for the altogether unexpected honour 

 you have done me, and I trust to find some way in which to 

 show my gratitude. 



The meeting: was then brought to a close. 



19th December, 1901. 



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



The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Members : — 

 Mr. Keith Buchanan and Mr. Robert M. Buchanan, Fairholm, 

 GifEiiock, and Mrs. D.' Maclachlan, 5 Grosvenor Place, Hillhead. 



Letters were read from the following ladies and gentlemen, 

 who had been elected Honorary Members at the Jubilee meeting 

 of the Society on 4th instant : — Mr. Samuel Chishohn, LL.D. 

 (the Hon. the Lord Provost of Glasgow), Belhaven Terrace; 

 Professor John Cleland, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., The University, 

 Glasgow; Professor J. W. H. Trail, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., 

 Tlie University, Aberdeen; Mr. J. A. Harvie-Brown, F.R.S.E., 

 F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Dunipace House, Larbert; Mrs. David Robert- 

 son, Ferabank, Millport; and Mrs. Robert Gray, 56 George 

 Street, Edinbm-gh — all giving expression to their high apprecia- 

 tion of the honour bestowed upon them by the Society. 



The following specimens were exhibited by Mr. John Paterson, 

 Vice-President, by favour of Mr. Charles Kirk : — (a) Gallinago 

 major (Gmel.), the Great Snipe, shot in East Renfrewshire in 

 September, 1901 ; (i) Stercorarius crepidatus, Gmel., Richard- 

 son's Skua, two examples from Shetland, illustrating two 

 phases of plumage; (c) a group of Humming Birds from Ecuador. 

 Their owner, Mr. Henry Coates, F.R.S.E., Perth, had had them 

 most artistically an-anged in a case, and in exhibiting them, 

 Mr. Paterson enlarged on this remarkably distinct group of 

 birds, especially referring to questions relating to their distri- 



