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7. Dr Traquaie exhibited, with remarks, the following birds : 



(1.) Great Crested Grebe {Podiccps cristahis) from Orkney. 



(2.) Egyptian Goose {Anser jEgyx)tiacus), shot on the Forth, 7tli March. 



(3.) Gadwall {Aims strcpcra), shot near Kincardine-ou-Forth, 12th March. 



8. Dr J. A. Smith exhibited two specimens of the Great Crested Grebe {Pocli- 



ceps cristatus) from North Berwick and Portobello, killed in the last week 

 of January ; also a Sclavonian Grebe {Podiccps cornutus) from Dirleton. 



9. The Secretaiy exhibited two specimens of the Shoveller {Anas clypcata\ 



male and female ; one shot on 6th May 1878, and the other five days later, 

 at Scrimerston, near Jedburgh, by j\Ir Elliot. The ovary of the female 

 had contained an egg almost ready for extrusion. 



Wednesday, 16th Ajjril 1879. — Professor Duns, President, in the Chair. 

 The following gentleman was elected an Ordinary Fellow of the Society : 

 George Leslie. 

 The following communications were read : 



1. "On Fossil Fishes from the Lower Coal Measures of Derbyshire. " By Dr 



R. H. Traquair. 



2. "Note on the Specimen oi Actinia mescmhryanthemiuni which belonged to 



the late Dr M'Bain." By John Sadler. 



3. " On an Abnormal Form of Eupilectclla asjJcrgiUuin." By George Leslie. 



4. "Note on the Harvest Mouse {3lus messorius)." (Living specimens ex- 



hibited. ) By A. B. Herbert. 



5. " Note on the Nesting of the Woodcock {Scolopax rusticola) near Penicuik, 



Midlothian." By William Evans. (Communicated by the Secretary.) 



6. The Secretary exhibited, with remarks, a specimen of the Hoopoe {Upupa 



epops), shot near Elie, Fifeshire, on 8th April ; also a specimen of the 

 Eed-throated Diver {Colymhus sejjtenti'ionalis), killed near Queensferry, 

 31st March, the bird being in full summer plumage. 



Wednesday, 29th May 1879.— Dr Pt. H. Traquair, President, in the Chair. 

 The following gentleman was elected an Ordinary Fellow of the Society : 



AVilliam Melven. 

 The following communications were read : 



1. "On the 'Tabulate Corals' of the Paleeozoic Period." By Professor H. A. 



Nicholson, F.G.S,, etc. 



2. "Note on the recent Destruction of Fish in Linlithgow Loch." By E. 



Scot-Skirving. 



3. ' ' Evidence of the Predatory Habits of the Larger Pakeoniscidce. " By Dr 



R. H. Traquair. 



4. "On the Genus Nemagraptus {Nematolitcs) of Emmons. By Charles 



Lapworth, F.G.S. 



5. "On the Nesting of the Common Pochard {Fidigula ferina) in Perthshire. " 



(Eggs exhibited.) By J. Hamilton Buchanan. 



6. Exhibition of the following birds by the Secretary : 



(1.) Black-throated Diver {Colymhus arcticus), taken in a pike net in Loch 

 Ard on 14th May, the bird — a male — being in full summer plumage. 



(2.) Icelsmd G\ill{Larus Island icus), shot at Port Seaton, Haddington- 

 shire, 8th May. 



