ANNUAL REPORT 



OJS" THE 



GLASGOW 



SOeiETY OF FIELB ^ATyRALtSTS. 



During the past year, the work of the Society has been carried on -with 

 ■vigour. The addition to the number of members has not been great ;- 

 but the prosperity of such a Society is rather to be measured by the work, 

 done, than by the increase of its members. 



There have been twelve excursions to places in the neighbourhood by 

 the Society, and the results of nearly as many excursions by individual; 

 members have been recorded. The Society's excursions were to the fol- 

 lowing places : — the Shores of the Gareloch ; the Banks of the Forth and 

 Clyde Canal ; Bardowie ; Cadder Wilderness ; Old Water Works on the 

 Clyde; Devole's Glen, near Port-Glasgow ; Fossil Marsh and Bardowie; 

 Tollcross and Kenmuir; Kilmalcolm, by Kilellan and Barochan to 

 Houston; Calderwood Glen ; Dunoon, for dredging ; and Callander, 



As yet the excursions have been rather desultory, the time devoted to ■ 

 each of them being short ; but they have been useful in preparing the way 

 for a more systematic survey of the district, a task to the performance of 

 which the members must look forward. 



The places visited by individual members (the observations made 

 during these visits being recorded in the Society's Minute-book and 

 Journals), were — Cumbraes, for dredging ; Bute, in the neighbourhood of 



