300 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
Reports were handed in on excursions which had taken place to 
the Botanic Gardens (see page 281), Arddarroch (see page 282), 
Queen’s Park (see page 282), and Tullich Hill and Ben Reoch 
(see page 282). 
Mr. David Willox, 48 Burgher Street, Parkhead, was elected as 
an Ordinary Member. 
Mr. James Mitchell (Hon. Librarian) intimated a valuable gift 
to the Society from the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s 
Treasury, consisting of twenty-nine royal quarto volumes and 
four parts of the report of the scientific results of the voyage of 
H.M.S. “Challenger” during the years 1872-6. Mr. Wm. 
Stewart referred to the good offices of Sir John Murray, LL.D., 
Ph.D., F.R.S., &e., and Mr. A. Somerville, B.Sc., F.L.S., in 
obtaining this valuable addition to the Library, and moved a vote 
of thanks to these gentlemen, which was heartily accorded. On 
the motion of the Rey. G. A. Frank Knight, M.A., a vote of 
thanks was also heartily given to the Lords Commissioners of 
Her Majesty’s Treasury for the gift. 
Mr. Charles Hogg exhibited a Kingfisher (Alcedo ispida, Linn.) 
from Meikleour, Perthshire. 
Mr. James Mitchell exhibited a Skin of the Serval Cat (Felix 
serval) from the Orange Free State. 
A paper by Messrs. John Paterson and John Renwick, entitled 
“ Report of a Visit to Sanda and Glunimore,” was read. (See 
page 197). 
2np Avueust, 1898. 
Mr. Robert Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., President, in the chair. 
Mr. S. M. Wellwood (Hon. Secretary) intimated the death of, 
and read an obituary notice on Mr. Joseph Christie, who joined the 
Society in 1882. It was agreed that the sympathy of the meeting 
should be conveyed to the widow of the deceased. Joseph Christie 
was a native of Kilmarnock, and was born in 1838. He received 
his first lessons in natural history from his father, who was an 
enthusiastic naturalist. The subject of this notice was almost the 
last survivor of the old botanists of the East End of Glasgow. 
Among the Camlachie weavers of forty or fifty years ago there 
existed a school of botanists and naturalists, with whom Joseph 

