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meeting of the Society, and, on paying the entrance fee, shall become a 

 member. 



" 4. That in the event of any expense having to be incurred which the 

 entrance fees may not cover, it shall be defrayed by (voluntary) contribu- 

 tions from the members. 



" 5. That the entrance fee be sixpence. 



" G. That a class of honorary members be admissible, in which shall be 

 included any persons distinguished by their attainments in Natural His- 

 tory, or who have rendered valuable services to the Society ; and that 

 such honorary members be elected by a majority at a general meeting, and 

 have all the privileges of ordinary members. 



" 7. That the members of the Society shall hold Field Meetings at con- 

 venient seasons, in the most interesting localities, for investigating the na- 

 tural history of the district. The place of meeting to be fixed by the 

 members, and notice of each excursion to be posted in the Society's meet- 

 ing room. 



" 8. That the ordinary meetings of the Society be held at the Mechanics' 

 Institution, on Saturday evenings, at eight o'clock. 



" 9. That the annual meeting be held during the month of April, when 

 the report for the past year shall be received, and officers elected. 



" 10. That at the annual meeting the President be requested to favour 

 the Society with an address." 



2. The doings of another Association will soon be published in these pages. 

 Thanks to our worthy correspondent Mr. " W. G.," another number of 

 the manuscript magazine of the Glasgow Naturalists' Society has just 

 reached us. The two societies of Glasgow and Warrington are as alike 

 each other as twin-sisters ; although each society has its own appropriate 

 features, and its modes of operation {modus operandi)^ they are not copies 

 of each other. 



The fourth volume or number of the manuscript magazine is announced. 

 " Our fourth volume, we anticipate, shall contain the first of a series of 

 papers on the Flora of Glasgow and vale of Clyde, laud and freshwater 

 shells, oruithology, Coleoptera, etc., the materials for which are being 

 busily collected at present, which I shnll gladly send you, if spared, early 

 in the spring." 



From the Glasgow Naturalists' Manuscript Magazine. 



" Welwitschia mikabilis. — A new plant, called in honour of its 

 discoverer JFelwitschia mirahilis, has been described by Dr. Hooker. Its 

 place of growth was near Cape Town, South Africa. In appearance it is 

 said to be a stunted trunk, two feet in height, with two leaves, which, 

 though the cotyledons, are persistent during the life of the plant. 



" A paper read before the Society of Arts by E. C. C. Stanford, enu- 

 merates a number of substances which may be extracted from seaweed, 

 chicHy the large Laminaria. He has procured ammonia, naphtha, colour- 

 ing matter, an essential oil, iodine, potash, etc. The utility of his dis- 

 coveries in an economic point of view is probably small. 



"The Potato Disease. — Dr. De Bary, of Frieberg, has recently 

 published a pamphlet containing an epitome of all that is known regarding 

 the potato disease, and gives the result of his own observations. He 



