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(3.) A specimen of the Great Spotted Woodpecker from the Isle of 

 May, with records of the occurrence of this species in the 

 Pentland Skerries and elsewliere. 



2. "Preliminary Notes on the Chmtopoda of the Firth of Forth." By J. T. 



Cunningham, B.A., F.R.S.E. 



3. " List of Echinodermata from the Firth of Clyde." By Prof. Henderson. 



4. " Notes on the British Species of ZevgojHerus." By Gkorge Brook, F.L.S. 



5. Exhibition of Fossil Ferns belonging to the genus Bhacophijllum. By 



Robert Kidston, F.G.S. 



6. Mr Hogg exhibited (1.) a hybrid between the Common Pheasant and 



Reeves' Pheasant ; and (2.) a female Black Grouse assuming the 

 plumage of the male. 



7. Mr Evans exhibited a specimen of an adult male Blue-throated Warbler 



{Cyaiiecula Suecica), which was shot at Belhaven, near Dunbar, in end 

 of May or beginning of June 1868. 



Wednesday, 19th January 1887. — Dr Symington in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 J. Houston Barry; Robert Howden, M.B., CM. ; William Somerville of 

 Cormiston ; James Duncan ; P. Caradoc Williams. 



The following communications were read : 



1. " Notes on some newly-described Tracts in the Spinal Cord." By Alex- 



ander Bruce, M.A., M.B., F.R.S.E. 



2. "Revision of the Nomenclature of the Fishes of the Old Red Sandstone. 



Part I., Acanthodidce and Palceoniscidce." By R. H. Traquair, 

 M.D., F.R.S. 



3. "Report on the Collection of Shells made by Mr John Rattray on the 



West Coast of Africa, the Canaries, and Cape Verde Islands ; " with 

 exhibition of specimens. By W. E. Hoyle, M.A., F.R.S.E. 



4. Exhibition of specimens of Bothriocephalus prohoscideus and Ascaris clavata, 



with remarks. By W. E. Hoyle, M.A., F.R.S.E. 



Wednesday, 16th February 1887.— Professor John Duns, D.D., F.R.S.E,, 



Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 The following gentleman was elected an Ordinary Fellow of the Society : 

 Symington Grieve. 

 The following communications were read : 



1. " On a recently-described Method of determining the presence of Ptomaines 



in Growths of Micro-Organisms." By G. Sims Woodhead, M.D. 



2. "Remarks on a Coralline from Gran Canaria." By John Rattray, 



M.A., B.Sc. 



3. " Notes on the relation of Pelagic Fauna to our Inshore Fisheries." By 



George Brook, F.L.S. 



4. Exhibition of a s,pecimen of the Bittern {Botaurus stellaris) shot at Long- 



niddry on 5th January last. By William Evans, F.R.S.E. 



5. " Exhibition of an Indian Water-snake {Enhydrina valakadyen) killed by 



sv/allowing a Siluroid Fish." By J. E. H. Kelso, M.B., CM. 

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