220 Reports and Proceedings. 



Mr. D. J. Brown then gave a short notice of the discovery of 

 specimens of Stropliomena Walmstedii in the Pentlands. This species 

 is new to Britain. It has been found, however, in Sweden. 



The concluding paper was on " The Sihirian Beds of the Pentland 

 Hills," by Messrs. D. J. Brown and John Henderson. A descrip- 

 tion was given of the section of the North JEsk Eeservoir, and more 

 than a hundred species of fossils from these beds were exhibited to 

 the members of the society. The authors of the paper gave their 

 opiaion as to the age of the beds, stating that they considered them 

 to be both of Wenlock and Ludlow age. They combated Mr. 

 Geikie's opinion as to the red beds being the lower portion of the 

 Old Eed Sandstone, and as they had both obtained Ludlow fossils 

 from them, they had arrived at the conclusion that there are a series 

 of red beds included in the Ludlow portion of the Silurian formation 

 in the Pentlands. They also pointed out an error in the Government 

 geological map of the district. The red beds in the maps are 

 marked as if cut off in the form of a triangle, but Messrs. Brown 

 and Henderson had traced them by cutting through the soil on the 

 hill sides, until they considered themselves justified in concluding 

 that those beds stretched across the whole area, in the same manner 

 as the other beds. 



Geological Society of Glasgow. — This society met in Anderson's 

 University, on the evening of 7th March. — Mr. Edward A. Wunsch, 

 Vice-President, in the chair. 



On the motion of the chairman, seconded by the Eev. Henry W. 

 Crosskey, Vice-President, Dr. John Young, Professor of Natural 

 History in the University of Glasgow, was elected President of the 

 society, in room of the late James Smith, Esq... of Jordan-hill, F.K.S. 



Dr. Young said he accepted with pride the honour which the 

 society had conferred on him. He had, though but recently a 

 stranger in Glasgow, received what under other circumstances he 

 might have hoped for as the reward of services rendered. The 

 society had, as it were, taken him on trust, and he would earnestly 

 endeavour to justify their generous confidence. After alluding to 

 the former school of geology in Scotland, and its influence on the 

 present tendencies of the science, he said it was small gratification 

 to our national pride that Scotsmen were so prominent in England, 

 whUe in Scotland there exists as yet neither school nor teacher. In 

 the honest work of such a society as that of Glasgow the means 

 exist for restoring to Scotland somewhat of its former prestige, and 

 he (Dr. Young) was much gratified at the opportunity now offered 

 him of furthering this desirable object. In taking the chair, Dr. 

 Young returned sincere thanks for the high personal compliment 

 bestowed on himself, and for the tacit appreciation thus shown of the 

 duties upon which he was about to enter elsewhere — duties which 

 the society had indicated its willingness to aid him in discharging, 

 while it had added one more to the ties which drew the University 

 and the city closer together, to the mutual benefit of both. 



Mr. James Bennie exhibited a number of small pebbles and 



