JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



SESSION ex. 



Wednesday, 17th Novembe?^ 1880. — Professor Duns, D.D., President, 

 in the Chair. 

 The following gentlemen were elected as Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 William Erskine ; George Bird. 



An Opening Address was delivered by Professor Duns, the retiring 

 President, on "The Early History of Scottish Natural Science." 



Wednesday, 15^7ti)cc«n&er 1880.— Professor Arch. Geikie, F.E.S., President, 



in the Chair. 

 The following Office-Bearers were elected : 



Presidents — Robt. Etheridge, Jun., F.G.S. ; Professor Arch. Geikie, 

 F.R.S. ; Professor H. Alleyne Nicholson, F.R.S.E. 

 Secretary — Robert Gray. Assistant- Secretary — John Gibson. 



Treasurer — ^Charles Prektice, C.A. Librarian — R. H. Traquair, M.D. 

 Councillors — William Ferguson ; Andrew Taylor ; Principal Williams ; J. F. 

 King ; Alex. Galletly ; George Leslie ; A. B. Herbert ; John Sadler ; 

 B. N, Peach ; D. J. Surenne ; John Walcot ; Professor Duns. 

 The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 J. M. Anderson, S.S.C. ; Patrick Geddes ; Frederick Pearcey ; John Glover, 

 S.S.C. ; R. Sidney Marsden, D.Sc. ; Frank E. Beddard, B.A. j Ferdinand 

 F. Begg. 



The following communications were read : 



1. "On the Affinities of the Liassic Genera, Oxygnathus, Cosmolepis Thrys- 



sonotus, and Centrolepis." By Dr R. H. Traquair, F.R.S. 



2. "Additional Notes on the Invertebrate Fauna of Lamlash Bay." By Dr 



W. A. Herdman. 



3. Dr Traquair exhibited, with remarks, a specimen of the Red-Legged 



Hobby {Fako rufipes), shot in Fifeshire on 20th September 1880. 



4. " Early Chapters in the History of the Squirrel, Part II. — Mythological, 



Heraldic, and Historical Evidence in Scotland." By J. A. Haryie- 

 Brown, F.Z.S. 



5. Mr Gray exhibited, with remarks, several birds from various localities in 



Scotland. These included an Albino Sea Eagle, shot in Shetland on 

 10th September; Great Grey Shrike, a young male showing vermicular 

 markings on the under surface, shot on 28tli October near Kirkcud- 

 bright; Rough-Legged Buzzard, shot at AVest Salton on 16th Novem- 

 1)er ; and a Great Crested Grebe, shot at Hopetoun on 24th November, 

 this last bird having the stomach distended with a mass of its own 

 feathers. 



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