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Professor Leonard A. L. King, M.A., gave a short lecture, 

 descriptive of the Pycnogonida or " Sea-spiders." After 

 giving an account of the appearance and habits of these 

 animals, he described the structure and functions of the 

 various segments and appendages of an individual pycnogonid 

 belonging to the genus Nymphon, and referred to the 

 characteristic features which distinguish the other genera 

 represented in the fauna of the Clyde Sea Area. These were 

 illustrated by the exhibition of a series of specimens. 



Mr. R. S. Wishart, M.A., exhibited a specimen of Heather 

 (Calluna vulgaris, L.) found embedded beneath the public road 

 at Stepps, and recently exhumed in the course of operations 

 for laying a drain. As the road was made more than a 

 hundred years ago, the heather had been preserved in a fresh 

 condition in the mossy ground all that time. 



Ml". D. A. Boyd showed a specimen of Geopyxis coccitiea (Jacq.) 

 Mass., from Glen Almond, Perthshire. 



A " List of Pycnogonida collected in the Clyde Area," com- 

 municated by Mr. Richard Elmhirst, F.L.S., was read by Professor 

 King (page 146). 



3 1st March, 1908. 



Mr. Robert Garry, B.Sc, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Mr. Alexander Ross drew the attention of the members present 

 to a letter received from Dr. James Knight, St. James's Public 

 School, in which he stated that Mr. James Paton, F.L.S., of the 

 Kelvingrove Museum, and Mr. Thomas Lugtou, of the People's 

 Palace, were desirous that arrangements should be made for 

 exhibiting the common wild-flowers of the district as they appear, 

 and for that purpose would provide the necessary tables and 

 f^lasses. They required, however, the co-operation of some 

 botanical enthusiasts who would undertake to supply, once a 

 week, the specimens needed, and also see that the plants were 

 correctly named. Mr. Ross stated that this appeal had been 

 sent to the Council, who decided to bring it before the Society, 

 with a recommendation that all possible assistance should be 

 given in the manner indicated. 



Mr. Charles Kirk exhibited a Black-necked Grebe {Podicepes 

 nigricoUis, C. L. Brehm), from Helensburgh. He also submitted 



