CONTENTS, 



SESSION 1854-55. 



November 22, 1854. Page 



I. Miller (H.), on the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland, 



Opening Address, . . . . . 1 



II. Murray (A.), on a Curious Habit of a Californian Wood- 

 pecker, ...... 1 



III. Lowe (Win. H.), Notice of Lepidopterous captures near 



Edinburgh, ...... 3 



IV. Logan (R. F.), Notice of do. . . 3 

 V. Smith (J. A.), Notice of Scops-Eared Owl (Scops Aldrovandi) 



shot in Sutherlandshire, . . . .4 



VI. Murray (A.), Notice of Ivory Gull (Larus ebwrneus) shot in 



Caithness, ...... 4 



December 27, 1854. 



I. Heddle (M. F.), on the Occurrence of Oxalates in the 

 Mineral Kingdom, and Analyses of Oonistonite and Hed 

 dlite, ...... 



II. Miller (H.), on a Raised Sea Bottom near Leith, . 5 



III. Geikie (A.), Liassic Fossils from Pabba and Skye, . 6 



IV. Bryson (Alex.), on Worm-Tracks in Silurian Slates, . 7 

 Office-bearers Elected for 1854-55, 



January 24, 1855. 



I. Bryson (Alex.), Discovery of Diatomacea) in the Silurian 



Slates of Scotland, . . . . .9 



II. Bryson (Alex.), Notice on a species of Nostoc or Sky- Jelly, 9 



