250 Proceedings of the Boyal Physical Society. 



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

 voted to the donors : 



1. Acta horti Petropolitani, Tom. V., fasc. 1.— From the Imperial Botanic 

 Garden of St Petersburg. 2. Kongliga Svenkska Yetenskaps-Akademiens : 

 (1.) Handlingar, Vols. XIIL-XIY., Part 1; (2.) Bihang, Vol. III., Part 2; 

 (3.) Ofversigt, No. 33; (4.) Meteorologiska Jakttagesler, Vol. XVI.— From 

 the Swedish Royal Academy, Stockholm. 3. Edinburgh Astronomical 

 Observations, Vol. XIV., 1870-77.— From the Lords Commissioners of Her 

 Majesty's Treasury, through Professor Piazzi Smyth. 4. Boletin del Minis- 

 terio de Fomento de la Republica Mexicana, Tomo I., Num. 76-86, inclusive. 

 — From the Central Meteorological Observatory, Mexico. 5. Journal and 

 Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, Vol. X., 1876. Also, 

 Annual Report of the Department of Mines, New South Wales, 1876.— From 

 the Society. 6. (1.) U.S. Geol. Survey of the Territories, 1877, Vol. XI; 

 Monographs of North American Rodentia, by Coues and Allen; (2.) Bulletin 

 of the U.S. Survey of the Territories, Vol. III., No. 4.— From the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior, U.S.A. 7. Proceedings of the Royal Society [London], 

 Vol. XXVI., No. 184.— From the Society. 8. Transactions of the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XXVIIL, Part 1.— From the Society. 9. Over- 

 sigt over det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger, 

 1877, No. 2.— From the Society. 10. Journal of the Linnean Society — 

 Botany, Vol. XVI., No. 94.— From the Society. 11. Jahresberichte des 

 Vereins fiir Erdkunde zu Dresden, Band XIII. and XIV. (1877).— From the 

 Society. 12. Estudios sobre la Flora y Fauna de Venezuela, por A. Ernst. 

 —From the Author. 13. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society, 

 Vol. XIV., Parts 15, 16. — From the Society. 14. Fifth Supplement to the 

 Catalogue of the Edinburgh Select Subscription Library.— From the Library. 

 15. Medical Examiner, VoL II., Nos. 107-111, inclusive. — From the 

 Publishers. 



The following communications were then read : 



I. Some Remarlis on the Breeding of the Snowy Owl (Surnia 

 nyctea) in Norway. By John A. Harvie-Brown, Esq. 



In 1871, Mr Alston and myself visited the district of the 

 rille Fjeld and Sogne Fjord in Norway for the purpose of 

 collecting birds and their eggs. We have not published in a 

 connected form the results of our expedition, but notes upon 

 various species observed by us will be found in Dresser's 

 "Birds of Europe," both from Alston's journals and my 

 own. Dresser makes mention of the "clutches" of snowy 

 owls' eggs hereafter mentioned (v. "Birds of Europe"); but 

 I have thought, in absence of a more recent subject to write 

 upon, that the collector's detailed notes upon these nests 

 may not prove uninteresting to members of this Society. 

 Mr Eobert Collet, the ornithologist of Norway, with' whom 

 we had the pleasure of making acquaintance when in 

 Christiania, has also noticed these specimens in his " Eemarks 

 on the Ornithology of Northern Norway." 



After we left Norway we engaged our assistant and " tolk " 



