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8th June, 1875. 



Mr. James Allan, Yice-President, in the chair. 

 Mr. David Gregorson reported that he had found the somewhat 

 rare Valeriana Pyrenaica at Kilsyth. 



EXCURSION, ., 



Blairmore. — Mr. J. C. Hutcheson reported that owing to the 

 stormy nature of the day this dredging excursion had not been a 

 great success. 



PAPER READ. 



Mr, David Gregorson then read a paper which he had called in 

 the syllabus " Plant Life," but which he said should rather have 

 been called " Notes of some Analogies between Plants and Ani- 

 mals, made for the purpose of determining more exactly the Posi- 

 tion of the various Classes of the Vegetable Kingdom as to the 

 order of their development." 



Andersonian University, 22nd June, 1875, 



Mr. James Allan, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Mr. W. D. Benson described and showed a sketch of an Angel 

 Fish which had been caught in a fisherman's net ofi" the Ayrshire 

 coast and which he had secured. The fish is preserved in the 

 Kelvingrove Museum. 



Mr. George Horn exhibited a common primrose with both 

 stalked and sessile umbels on the same plant gathered in Bothwell 

 Woods. 



paper read. 



Mr. Thomas King read a paper called " Remarks on the 

 Natural History of Chili. " He first gave an account of the principal 

 writers on the Natural History of the country, including Molina, 

 Darwin, Gay, the "U. S. Expedition of 1849, Phillipi, Raid, and 

 Cunningham, and the results of their work. Prom this he passed 

 on to a description of the various animals, the vampire, chinchilla, 

 puma, Canis Magellanicus, guanaco, and huemal. He also described 

 many of the birds, and exhibited preserved specimens of them. 



