292 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
The Rev. G. A. Frank Knight, M.A., Convener of the Museum 
and Research Committee, drew attention to the fact that the 
British Association for the Advancement of Science was to meet 
in Glasgow in 1901. He urged the importance of setting to work 
at once to prepare lists of the Fauna and Flora of the district, 
and he asked the members of the Society to co-operate with the 
Museum and Research Committee in the projected work. 
Mr. R. 8. Wishart, M.A., exhibited some common Oak-Galls. 
Mr. Charles Kirk exhibited a hybrid between the Black Grouse 
(Tetrao tetrix, Linn.) and the Capercaillie (Z'etrao wrogallus, Linn.) 
from Perthshire. 
On behalf of Professor T. K. Dalziel, M.B., C.M., Mr. John 
Paterson exhibited the Common Moonal Pheasant (Lophophorus 
refulgens, Temm.) from the Himalayas. 
Mr. Charles Hogg exhibited specimens of the Stoat and Weasel. 
Mr. James Whitton exhibited specimens of the inflorescence of 
Yucca gloriosa, Linn., from Camphill, and stated that, though 
this plant is popularly believed to flower only once in its lifetime, 
he had known plants flowering at least twice within his own 
experience. 
Mr, Thomas Scott, F.L.8., read a paper entitled “ Notes on 
the Micro-fauna of Ailsa Craig, Firth of Clyde.” (See page 153.) 
Professor G. Bell Todd, M.B., C.M., read a paper entitled 
* Some Eucalypts and their Medicinal Products.” 
28TH DecemBer, 1897. 
- Mr. Robert Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.8., President, in the ehair. 
Messrs. Norman H. W. MacLaren, 5 Belhaven Terrace, and 
Andrew Sharp, Jun., 211 Great Western Road, were elected as 
Ordinary Members. 
On behalf of Mr. R. S. Houston, Mr. Peter Ewing, F.LS., 
exhibited a number of plants collected in Renfrewshire. Among 
them were—T7vrifolium arvense, Linn., Veronica scutellata, Linn., 
Ranunculus sceleratus, Linn., Senecio viscosus, Linn., Weottia 
Nidus-avis, Linn. 
Mr. Robert Brown, M.D., read a paper on “ Alpine (Swiss) 
Gentians.” He referred to the Gentianacee as an order attractive 
to the general lover of nature by its extreme beauty of colour, 

