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The following birds were exhibited by the Secretary on behalf of Mr J. A. 

 Harvie-Brown : — (1.) Black Eedstart (male) {Ruticilla titys, Scop.), which 

 was shot on the Isle of May, 24th October, by Mr J. Agnew ; (2.) Leach's 

 Petrel {Thalasidroma Leachii), which was taken on the Lighthouse at Girdle- 

 ness, Aberdeenshire, during the past month. 



Wednesdmj, 11th December 1884.— B. N. Peach, F.G.S., F.R.S.E., President, 



in the Chair. 

 The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 A. Milne-Murray, M.A., M. B. ; Laurence H.Wight, M.A. ; A. D. Webster, 

 M. D. ; Rev. J. Kerr Campbell ; Charles E. S. Chambers ; Edwin Baily, 

 M.B., CM. ; C. Heron Watson; J. A. Armitage, B.A. ; W. Sawers Scott ; 

 Rev. A. B. Morris ; Jerrold H. Fenton ; George Barrow ; John Rattray, 

 M.A., B.Sc. ; Henry B. Baildon, B.A. (Cantab.) ; H. H. Gunu, A.R.S.M. ; 

 Lionel Hinxman ; William Watson, M.D. ; H. H. Howell ; J. K. Brown. 



The following Office-bearers were elected : 

 Presidents— Q. N. Peach, F.G.S., F.R.S.E.; J. A. Harvie-Brown, F.R.S.E., 



F.Z.S. ; Professor John Duns, D.D., F.R.S.E. 

 Secretary — Robert Gray, V.P.R.S.E. Assistant- Secretary — John Gibson. 

 Treasurer — Charles Prentice, C.A., F.R.S.E. Librarian — R. Sydney 



Marsden, D.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.C.S. 

 Coima'Wors— Patrick Geddes, F.R.S.E. ; Frank E. Beddard, M.A.(Oxon.) 

 Johnson Symington, M.B., CM. ; Andrew Moffat ; John Hunter, F.C.S. 

 Robert Kidston, F.G.S. ; A. B. Herbert; W. E. Hoyle, M.A., M.R.CS. 

 Professor J. Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S. ; Professor J. Cossar Ewart, M.D. 

 G. Sims Woodhead, M.D., F.R. C.P.Ed. ; Hugh Miller, F.R.S.E. 

 The following communications were read : 



1. "On Loligopsis and some other Genera." By Wm. E. Hoyle, M.A., 



M.R.CS. Mr Hoyle also exhibited a Specimen of Strongylus con- 

 tortus (Rud.). 



2. "Method of Consolidating and Preparing Thin Sections of Friable and 



Decomposed Rocks, Sands, Clays, Oozes, and other Granulated Sub- 

 stances," with exhibition of Specimens. By Fred. G. Pearcey. 



3. " Recent Additions to the Invertebrate Fauna of the Firth of Forth," with 



exhibition of Specimens. By John R. Henderson, M.B. 



4. *' Note on the Breeding of the Marsh Tit (Fanes palustris) in Stirlingshire 



during 1884," with exhibition of nest and eggs. By Wm. Evans, 

 F.R.S.E. 



5. "On Abnormal Dentition in a Dingo {Canis dingo)," with exhibition of 



Specimen. By Andrew Wilson, L.D.S. 



6. Mr A. Gray exhibited living Specimens of the Water Spider {Argyroneta 



aquatica) from Luffness Marshes, Haddingtonshire. 



Wednesday, list January 1SS6. — J. A. Harvie-Brown, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S. 

 President, in the Chair. 

 The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society 

 James Monteath ; Wm. C Mackenzie; J. Henry Zepero, L.R.C.P. k S. 



