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Professor Malcolm Laurie, D.Sc., B.A., F.L.S., F.R.S.E., read 
some notes on ‘“ The Embryos of some Scorpions and their Allies.” 
A paper entitled “Note on Raspberry Roots” by Mr. G. F. 
Scott Elliot, M.A., B.Sc., F.L.S., F.R.G.S, and Mrs. Fingland was 
read (see page 205); and Mr. Scott Elliot read further a “ Note 
‘on China Grass” (see page 179). 
Mr. Robert Dunlop showed on the screen a series of photographs 
of birds’ nests. 
297TH Marcu, 1898. 
Mr. Robert Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., President, in the chair. 
The Society met on the evening of this date at an early hour. 
There was first exhibited an extensive series of marine objects and 
microscopic preparations, provided by Professor W. C. M‘Intosh, 
M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.S.E, F.LS., C.M.Z.S., Corresponding 
Member ; and thereafter. in the large hall, which was quite filled, 
Professor M‘Intosh delivered a lecture on “‘ The Influence of Man 
on the Inhabitants of the Ocean.” Mr, A. Somerville, B.Sc., 
F.LS., Vice-President, occupied the chair at the lecture, which 
was closely followed by the large audience present. The lecture 
was illustrated by a series of coloured drawings and lantern slides. 
26TH APRIL, 1898. 
Mr. Robert Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., President, in the chair. 
Reports on excursions to Glen Roy (see page 275) and Bothwell 
Castle (see page 278) were read. 
Reference was made to the loss which the Society had sustained 
in the death of Sir James Bain, who had been a member of the 
Society for thirty-six years. 
Mr. C. J. Robertson, Rannoch, Cambuslang, was elected as an 
Ordinary Member. 
Mr. Johnstone Macfie, M:D., exhibited a supposed hybrid 
between the Black Grouse (Z'etrao tetrix, Linn.) and the Red 
Grouse (Lagopus scoticus, Lath.). This bird had been recently 
~ shown to the Zoological Society of London, where two opinions haa 
been expressed—(1) that it was an old Grey-hen assuming male 
plumage, and (2) that it was a hybrid as hinted above. Tlie 
