110 tr^u^sactions, natural iiistort society of glasgow. 



29th May, 1906. 



Mr. D. A. Boyd, President, in the chair. 



Mr. Boyd read a notice of one who had died lately and 

 had been for long a member of this society, Mr. James 

 Barclay Murdoch, of Capelrig. Mr. Murdoch had at one time 

 been a Vice-President of the Society. Ic was agreed to send an 

 expression of sympathy to Mr. Murdoch's widow and family in 

 their bereavement. 



Reports were submitted on excursions to Doonholm, <kc. (p. 88) ; 

 Harelaw Dam (p. 94) ; Blackshaw, at West Kilbride (p. 94) ; 

 and the west side of the Gareloch (p. 95). 



Mr. A. W. Campbell, Mossbank, Millerston, was elected an 

 Ordinary Member, and Miss Dorothy Beath Henderson an 

 Associate of the Society. 



Mr. Robert Henderson exhibited a fly {Drynyia hanata), with 

 adherent pollinia of orchis, and explained the prevailing belief 

 that flies were too stupid to manipulate the corollas of plants in 

 the interest of cross-pollination. He showed, however, by a care- 

 ful examination of this fly that it was peculiarly fitted by special 

 organs for this purpose, and he was, he said, under the impression that 

 many other species would be found equally suited for the purpose. 



Mr. T. B. Henderson, M.D., exhibited and described Draco 

 spilopierus (Dumeril and Bibron). 



Mr. Richard M'Kay exhibited the Toothwort {Lathrcea 

 Squamaria). The plant shown was parasitic on the Lime (Tilia) 

 at Doonholm, Ayr. Mr. M'Kay also showed an example of 

 " Witches' Broom " [yEcidium elatinum) on the Silver Fir (Picea 

 pectinata) from Doonholm. 



Mr. Alex. Ross, for Mr J. E. Mui-phy, exhibited the moths 

 and some of the cocoons dealt with in a paper by Mr. John 

 Smith on " Cocoons of some British Moths." 



In the absence of Mr. Alexr. Patience, a paper " On the 

 occurrence of Gobius orca, Collett, within the Clyde sea area " 

 (p. 74) was read by Mr. Alexr. Ross. 



Mr. John Robertson read a paper on " The Common Sandpiper 

 {Totanus hypoleticus)" (p. 77), and a note on the "Little Stint 

 (Tringa minuta) at Balgray Reservoir" (p. 76). Mr. D. 

 M'Kenzie exhibited a Cowslip, showing fasciation, and Mr. P. 

 Ewing, F.L.S., a specimen of Slum erectum collected by Mr. 

 Gilbert Hamilton, Jun., near Abington. 



