CONTENTS. V 



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SESSION 1855-56. 



November 28, 1855. 



I. Fleming (Professor), Opening Address, . . .25 



II. Murray (Andrew), Notice of Leaf Insect (Phyllium scythe) ; 



with Remarks on its Metamorphoses. (With 3 Plates), 29 



III. Cobbold (T. S.), on a Remarkable Pouched Condition on the 



Glandulce Peyeriance of the Giraffe. (With a Plate), 45 



IV. Heddle (M. F.), Notice of the occurrence of Meteoric Lead 



in Meteoric Iron, . . . . .48 



December 26, 1855. 



I. (1.) Logan (R. F.), Notice of the Saury Pike (Scomberesox 



sauris), . . . . . .49 



(2.) Smith (J. A.), Notice of do. do. . 50 



II. Heddle (M. F.), on the Galactite of Hardinger, with 



Analysis of Scottish Natrolites, . . . .51 



III. Cobbold (T. S), Notice of a variety of Cod termed the Lord- 



fish, ....... 51 



IV. M'Intosh (Wm.), Notice of a curious habit of the Common 



Seal, ....... 52 



V. Smith (John A.), Notice of the Ferruginous Duck (Nyroca 



leucopthalomos) shot in the Firth, . . > b2 



VI. Smith (John A.), Notice of the Mealy Red Poll (Linota 

 canescens), near Edinburgh; and Notice of the Crested 

 Grebe killed in the Tay, . . . .52 



Office-bearers Elected for 1855 56, . . .53 



January 23, 1856. 



I. Logan (R. F.), Notice on the late Stay of Swallows in 1855, 53 

 II. Dassauville (P. A.), Notice of Arctic Skua (Lestris parasi- 

 tica), shot in Skye, . . , . .54 



III. Heddle (M. F.), on Mesolite, Faroelite (Mesole), and Antri- 



molite, . . . . . .55 



IV. Page (D.), on Woodocrinus macrodactylus, a new genus 



of Encrinite, . . . . , .55 



V. Page(D.), on some New Crustacean Forms from the Forfar 



Flagstones, . . . . „ .56 



VI. Wardrop (J.), on Recent Discoveries in Helminthology, . 56 



February 28, 1856. 



Smith (J. A.), Notice of the Short Sun Fish (Orthagoriscus 

 mola), and of the Porbeagle (Lamna cornubica), from the 

 Firth of Forth, . . . 51 



