■274 TRANSACTIONS. NATURAL IIISTOHY SOCIETY OF GLASfiOW. 



properties of the plant, and the danger of its being gathered and 

 used in place of Garden Parsley {Petroselinum sativum, HofFm.), 

 to which it bears considerable resemblance. 



Mr. Alexander Patience read a paper on "'Some Crustacea 

 new to the Clyde Sea and Faunal Areas," which he illustrated 

 by means of numerous specimens. 



30Tn October, 1906. 



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



As this was the Society's Fifty-fifth Annual Business Meeting, 

 the usual Reports were submitted. 



Membership. Meetings, dec. — The Hon. Secretary (Mr. Alexander 

 Ross) read the Report of the Council, which stated that since 

 last Annual Meeting the names of ton Ordinary and four 

 Associate Members had been added to the Roll of the Society, 

 while eight Ordinary and three Associate Members had.resigned 

 or had their names struck off the list. Two Corresponding and 

 three Ordinary Members had been remoA'ed by death, these being 

 respectively the Rev. P. J. Gloag, D.D., Mr. W. Anderson Smith, 

 Mr. Hugh Brown. Sir Charles Tennant, Bart., and Mr. R. Wilson 

 Thorn. The Membership is now as follows : — 



Honorary Members, - - - - - 16 



Corresponding Members, - - - 35 



Ordinary Members, ----- 222 



Associates, - - - . - 13 



286 



During the Session ten Meetings were held, at which the highest 

 attendance was 57 and the lowest 25. Eighteen Excursions took 

 place, one of which was arranged jointly with the Geological 

 Society of Glasgow, six with the West Kilbride Natural History 

 and Archaeological Society, three with the Audersonian 

 Naturalists' Society, and two with the Paisley Naturalists' 

 Society. Owing to the inability of Mr. P. Ewing, F.L.S., to 

 attend the meeting of the British Association at York, the 

 Society was represented by Mr. James Murray, of the Scottish 

 Lochs Survey. 



