JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



SESSION CXI. 



JFednesdaij, 16ih November 1881. — Mr Robert Etheridge, Jun., F.G.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected as Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 James Lumsden ; Archibald Craig, Jun. 



An Opening Address was delivered by Mr Etheridge, the retiring 

 President, on "The Palaeozoic Conchology of Scotland. " 



Wednesday, 2lst December 18S1. — Professor A. Geikie, F.R.S., President, 



in the Chair. 

 The following Office-Bearers were elected : 

 Presidents — Professor A. Geikie, F.R.S. ; Professor H. Alleyne Nicholson, 



F.R.S.E. ; R. H. Traquair, M.D., F.R.S. 

 Secretary — Robert Gray, F.R.S.E. Assistant- Secretary — John Gibson. 

 Treastirer — Charles Prentice, C.A. Ron. Librarian — J. T, Gray, M.A. 

 Councillors — A. Galletly ; George Leslie, M. B., CM, ; A. B. Herbert ; John 

 Sadler ; B. N. Peach ; D. J. Surenne ; John Walcot ; Professor Duns ; 

 T. B. Sprague, M.A. ; William Evans ; Andrew AVilson ; A. C. Stark. 

 The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 William Berry ; Reginald Ernest Horsley ; T. Slingsby Tanner ; James 

 Maclaren; A. N. M 'Alpine. 



The following communications were read : 



1. "On the Zoology of Middle Lochaber." By Professor J. DuNs. Pro- 



fessor Duns also exhibited a nest and eggs of the Eider Duck {Somaterla 

 mollissima) from the Isle of May, Firth of Forth. 



2. " On Hysgeir, off Canna, and its Bird Life ; with Notice of the Breeding 



of the Pintail Duck {Anas acuta).'' By J. A. Harvie-Brown, F.Z.S. 



3. "Notes on the Entomology of the New Forest;" with exhibition of 



Specimens. By William Evans. 



Wednesday, 18th January 1882. — Dr Traqitair, F.R.S., President, in 



the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 



Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D. ; James Simpson; Walter John Haldane 



Cumming ; Samuel Crockett ; David Taylor ; Robert Stewart ; Andrew Hogg ; 



W. R. Macdonald. 



The following communications were read : 

 1. The Secretary exhibited two specimens of Reeves' Pheasant {Phasianus 



