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 IV. Murray (A.), Description of New Coleoptera from Western 



Andes. (With a Plate), • . . . .207 



V. Murray (A), Coleoptera from Old Calabar, . 222, 271 



VI. Smith (J. A.), on a Variety in the Development of the Antlers 



of the Red Deer, . . . . .222 

 on a Variety of the Rabbit, . . . 222 



December 24, 1856. 



Office-bearers Elected for 1856-57, . . .222 



Adjournment of Meeting in consequence of the death of 

 Hugh Miller, . . . . . .223 



January 28, 1857. 



Memorial to Government regarding the Purchase of Mr 



Miller's Museum, . . . • .223 



Lowe (W. H.), Address on the loss the Society had sustained 

 from the death of the late H. Miller, . . . 223 



I. Wright (T. S.), Observations on British Zoophytes. (With 



2 Plates), . . . . .226 



II. Greville (R. K.), Notice of Dredgings in Lamlash Bay, . 237 



III. Wright (T. S.), on the Prehensile apparatus of Spio Seti- 



cornis. (With a Plate), .... 238 



IV. Smith (J. A.), Ornithological Notices, . . . 240 

 V. Murray (A.), Notes on the British Species of Patella, . 243 



Februarg 25, 1857. 



I. Murray (A.), on the Genus Ateuchus, and its South American 



Representatives, ..... 243 



II. Taylor (Andrew), on the contemporaneous Geological Age 

 of the ." Mountain" and " Burdie House" Limestone Beds 

 of the Linlithgowshire Coalfield, . . . 244 



III. (1.) Bryson (Alex.), Notice of the occurrence of Apophyllite 



at Ratho, ...... 245 



(2.) Bryson (Alex.), on the Microscopical Structure of Lepi- 

 dostrobi and Stigmaria, .... 245 



IV. Peach (Ch. W.), Notice of Diatornacece in Marls near Wick, 245 

 V. (1.) Smith (J. A.), Notice of the Horn of a Reindeer found 



in Dumbartonshire, ..... 247 



(2.) Smith (J. A.), Notice of the Wood Sandpiper (Totanus 

 glareola) shot in Mid-Lothian, . . . .249 



March 25, 1857. 



I. Wood (Rev. W,), on the Geology of the Neighbourhood of 



Elie, . . . . . . .250 



