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have imdertaken to present to the Kelviiigrove Museum a collection of 

 the flowering plants of Clydesdale, and last season they were enabled 

 to hand over a large number of specimens. 



The papers read during the year have been varied and interesting. 

 Although the work of the Summer Session chiefly consisted of the exhi- 

 bition of specimens and reports of excursions, yet time was found for 

 the reading of short papers on the following subjects : — " The Order 

 Decapoda of the British Stalk-eyed Crustaceans," " How to begin a Salt- 

 water Aquarium," " Explanation of the Principles of the Construction of 

 the Microscope," " The Eye and its Modifications in Insects," and 

 ** When are Plants entitled to be called Indigenous 1 " 



The reading of papers being the object to which the meetings of the 

 Winter Session are principally devoted, at the beginning of the Session 

 a syllabus was prepared, and from the success with which the arrange- 

 ments were carried out, evidence was given of the benefit arising from 

 having the subjects of the papers previously fixed. 



During the Winter Session, papers were read on the following sub- 

 jects : — " On the Present Tendencies of Science;" '^ On the Distribution 

 of Plants ;" "A Life History of Nematus Gallicola, with some Account 

 of its Parasites ; " " On Spiders ; " " On Zoophytes ; " " On the Exotic 

 Plants of Clydesdale ;" " On the Definition of Species ; " " Notes of Ob- 

 servations in Marine Zoology ; " " Notes of Observations with the Micro- 

 scope ;" " Botanical Gleanings from the Rubbish-heaps of the City ;" and 

 " On the Cynipidse of the Glasgow District." 



In addition to the above, a paper by Dr. Stirton was brought under 

 the notice of the Society, which the Council resolved on publishing, as it 

 contains an account of a number of lichens found in New Zealand not 

 hitherto described. 



ADDITIONS TO THE 

 LICHEN ELOPA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



DR. J. STIRTON. 



The following are descriptions of lichens picked out of Several bundles 

 sent to me by Mr John Buchanan, of the Colonial Museum, Wellington, 

 New Zealand, to whose assiduity and enthusiasm I can bear ample 

 testimony. 



