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Wednesday, Volh March 1882. — rroCossor A. Gkikii:, F. U.S., Pre.siilout, 

 ill the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 Harry Armour; Colin Alexander M'Vean ; James L. Grant Wilson; John 

 Swinburne ; John Ferguson ; James Stirling ; Herbert -E. llawson ; L. 

 M'Kinnon M 'Donald. 



The following communications were read : 



1. " Note on a Remarkable Skull of liabyrussa {Babijrasfia alfarus, Lesson)." 



By 11. H. TjiAQUAiii, il.D. 



2. "The History of the Chough (Fregtlus rjraculua) in Scotland." By J. 



Hamilton Buchanan, 



o. " Note on the Cranial Venous Circulation, " By J. Symington, i\l. !»., C. M, 



4. "A Comparative Note upon the Common Buzzard {Butco vulgaris) and 



the Honey Buzzard {Pcrnis apivorus) ; with exhibition of specimens. 



By J, M. Anderson. The Honey Buzzard, which was an adult male, 



and whose stomach contained the remains of a young grouse, was shot 



at Kilconquhar, Fife, 10th July 1881. 



r>. " On the Morphology of the Cell," Part II. By Patrick Gedde.s, F.R.S.E. 



6. "On the Birds of Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire." By Archibald 



Craig, Jun. 



7. The Secretary exhibited a specimen of the Shore Lark [Alauda alpestris), 



shot at Tynefield, East Lothian, in the winter of 1879, 



8. Mr J. Sadler reported that the well-known Sea Anemone, which be- 



longed to the late Sir J. Graham Dalziel, had recently produced seven 

 young ones. 



TVcdnesday, I9th April 1882,— Dr Traquair, F.R,S,, President, in the 



Chair. • 

 The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 James Barclay Murdoch ; Professor A. Stanley Butler ; Henry Seebohm, 

 F.L.S, ; George Andrew, S.S.C, ; John Edward Dovey, C.A, ; Edward 

 Bidwell. 



The following communications were read : 



1. "Notes on the Natural History of Madagascar." By Rev. AV, Dean.s 



Cowan. 



2. "On the Fructification of Sphenoptcris teiwlla (Brong.)and Sphawpteri^ 



microcarjja (Lesq.), By Robert Kidston, 



3. Dr Traqxtair exliibited, with remarks, specimens of PJironima scdcntaria 



(Forsk). 



4. Mr Capper exhibited a specimen of Trochilus moschiius and its Nest, 



which had been forwarded to him through the medium of the post by 

 a correspondent in Jamaica, 



5. The Secretary drew the attention of the meeting to a pair of young 



Emus {DromaiiLs Noiw-Hollandicc), which had been hatched in con- 

 finement in Midlothian. 



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