Journal. 5G9 



2. " Notes on the Occurrence in Scotland of the Great White Heron [Ardrrr. 



alba) and the Blue-winged Teal (Querquedula discors) ;" with exhibi- 

 tion of specimens. By R. H. Traquair, M.D., F.E.S. 

 The Heron was shot at Branechoil, Loch Katrine, in May 1881, and re- 

 corded in the Scottish Naturalist for 1886 (p. 367) as a Little Egret. 

 The Teal was shot on the Nith, Dumfriesshire, about 25 years ago 

 {vide Gray's " Birds of "West of Scotland," p. 373). Both are now in 

 the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art. 



3. "On the Development of the Oviduct in Teleostean Fishes." By J, T, 



Cunningham, B. A. 



SESSION CXVII. 



Wednesday, IQiJi Novemher 1887. — Professor John Duns, D.D., 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 Oswin A. J. Lee ; John S. Oliver ; J. Arthur Thomson. 



The Chairman delivered an Opening Address, paying a tribute to the 

 memory of Fellows deceased since the beginning of last Session, referring 

 to the present state and future prospects of the Society, and criticising the 

 attitude of several leading Darwinians towards Darwin's Theory. 



Wednesday, 21st December 1887. — Sir William Turner, President, 

 in the Chair. 

 The Secretary submitted a Eeport on the state of the Society ; the^ 

 Librarian on the state of the Library ; and the Treasurer on the state of the 

 Accounts. 



The following Office-Bearers were elected : 

 President — Sir William Turner, LL.D., F.R.S. 

 Vice-Presidents — Professor J. CoasAR Ewart, M.D,, F.B.S.E. ; Professor 



James Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S. ; G. Sims Woodhead, M.D., F.R.S.E. 

 Secretary— K. H. Traquair, M.D., F.R.S. AssistaTit- Secretary— Sotl^ Gunn. 

 Treasurer — George Lisle, C.A. 



Councillors— B.. Moubray Cadell, B.Sc, F.R.S.E. ; B. N. Peach, F.G.S., 



F.R.S.E. ; George Brook, F.L.S. ; William Evans, F.R.S.E. ; Professor 



Wallace, F.R.S.E. ; Johnson Symington, M.D., F.R.S.E. ; John Falconer 



King, F.C.S. ; J. A. Harvie-Brown, F.R.S.E. ; Professor Duns, D.D. ; 



G. Lovell Gulland, M.A., M.B. ; R. Kidston, F.G.S., F.R.S.E. ; 



T. B. Sprague, F.R.S.E. 



The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society ; 



William Russell, M.D., F.R.C.P.E. ; E. Wearne Clarke, B.Sc, M.B., CM. ; 



Samuel W. Wallace. 



The following communications were read : 

 1. "On some points in the Anatomy of the Flat Worms." By Wm. E. 

 Hoyle, M.A., F.R.S.E. 



