214 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



Wednesday, 19th December 1877. — J. Falconer King, Esq., F.C.S., 

 President, in the Chair, 



The following gentlemen were elected Ofi&ce-Bearers for the Session : 



Presidents. — J. Falconer King, Esq.; Kamsay H. Traquair, M.D., F.G.S. ; 

 Professor Duns, D.D. 



Council. — R. Scot-Skirving, Esq.; John Alexander Smith, M. D. ; David 

 Grieve, Esq., F.G.S. ; John Hunter, Esq.; W. Drinkwater, Esq.; and Robert 

 Etheridge, Jun., Esq., F.G.S. 



Secretary.— F^ohQvi Gray, Esq., F.R.S.E. 



Treasurer. — E. W. Dallas, Esq. 



Honorary Librarian. — Rev. James Kennedy, M.A., B.D. 



Assistant Secretary. — John Gibson, Esq. 



Library Committee. — James M'Bain, M.D., R.N. ; Thomas Robertson, Esq.; 

 R. F. Logan, Esq.; Robert Gray, Esq.; F. W. Lyon, M.D. ; and James Ander- 

 son, Esq. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for and elected as Resident Members 

 of the Society : 



Philip B. Gibb, M. A., 14 Picardy Place; Sommerville Grieve, Esq., Salis- 

 bury View, Dalkeith Road; John Murray, F.R.S.E., "Challenger" Office, 

 12 Teviot Row; Dr Jackson, R.A., Leith Fort; Charles Prentice, Esq., C.A., 

 55 Castle Street ; and Dr J. W. Barry, 23 Duke Street. 



As Corresponding Member — Thomas Edward, A.L.S., Banff. 



The following donations to the Library were laid on the table, and thanks 

 voted to the donors : 



1. Proceedings of the Royal Society [of London], Vol. XXVL, Nos. 182, 183. 

 — From the Society. 2. Ethnography of the Hidatsa Lidians, by Matthews. 

 Bulletin of the L^.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, Vol. 

 IL, Nos. 2, 3, 4; Vol. IIL, Nos. 1, 2, 3 ; Second Series^ Nos. 4, 5, 6. Bulletin 

 of the Entomological Commission, Nos. 1 and 2. Supplement to Fifth Annual 

 Report of the Survey for 1871 (Report on Fossil Flora). List of Elevations, 

 by Gannet. Coues' " Birds of the North- West, " 1874. — From the Department 

 of the Interior, U.S. Government. 3. Journal of the Linnean Society — (1.) 

 Zoology, VoL XIII, No. 71, and Vol. XIV, No. 73; (2.) Botany, Vol. XVL, 

 No. 92. — From the Society. 4. Videnskabelige Meddelser fra Naturhistorisk 

 Forening i Kjobenhavn, for Aaret 1876. — From the Society. 5. Proceedings 

 of the Boston [U.S.A.] Society of Natural History, Vol. XVIIL, Parts 3 

 and 4. — From the Society. 6. Canadian Journal of Science, Literature, and 

 History, Vol. XV., No. 7. — From the Canadian Institute, Toronto. 7. Boletin 

 del Ministerio de Fomento de la Republica Mexicana, Tomo 1, 1877. — From 

 the Ministry of the Interior, Mexico. 8. Distribution of the Brachiopoda in 

 the Oolitic Strata of Yorkshire, by W. H. Huddlestone and John F. Walker. 

 — From the Authors. 



The following communications were read : 



I. Note on the Occurrence of the Becl-breasted Larh (Sturnella 

 militaris) in Central America. By Robert Gray, 

 Esq., F.R.S.E,, etc. (Specimen exhibited.) 



A few months ago I received from my friend, Dr Robert 

 Macdowall; resident in Panama, the bird which I now exhibit, 



