542 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



The whole of the expense of establishment and main- 

 tenance has been and will be defrayed from funds placed at 

 the disposal of the Committee by the Council of the College. 

 Of this an initial grant of £1000 was made, with which to 

 alter and furnish the house and buy apparatus, instruments, 

 and chemicals. In addition to this an annual grant of £650 

 is made, from wiiich all salaries, rents, and taxes are paid, 

 and stock is kept up. Of these sums, only about £830 of 

 the original £1000, and £600 of the annual grant, were spent 

 during the first twelve months, so that the whole equipment 

 and fittings of the Laboratory, together with the current 

 expenses during the above period, cost only £1430. During 

 the year there have been 22 medical men — 9 Fellows, and 

 4 Members of the College and 9 other qualified medical 

 men — engaged in pathological, physiological, chemical, or 

 bacteriological investigations, some of which have been com- 

 pleted and will shortly be published. In addition, nearly 

 one hundred tumours or other histological preparations have 

 been examined, and numerous analyses have been made by 

 or for the Fellows of the College and others. 



The Laboratory has also been used for examination 

 purposes in connection with the Diploma in Public Health 

 granted by the College. 



XLIII. The Summer Birds of Shetland, luith Notes on their 

 Distribution, Nesting, and Numbers. By Hakold 

 IUeburn, Esq. 



(Read 18th April 1888.) 



The materials for the following paper were chiefly gathered 

 during a visit paid these islands in the latter end of May 

 and beginning of June 1887. Observations made on a former 

 visit have also been included, and for accounts of those 

 species not personally observed, I am principally indebted to 

 Saxby's " Birds of Shetland," and to Edmondston's "View of 

 the Zetland Isles," published in 1809. I have also received 

 some interesting details with regard to the Erne and Eed 

 Grouse from Mrs Scott and Mr Laurenson of Lerwick. 



The list of the resident land birds of Shetland is a very 

 limited one, and has not increased to any extent since the 



