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me that — " There is no doubt of the bird being the Totanus glareola, 

 Teinm., as you suppose ; but it is an interesting specimen, as I am not 

 aware of any other being recorded as killed in Scotland, although it has 

 been got in Northumberland and the borders. Your bird, I think, is in 

 its first year's plumage, indicated by the brown markings, and the thick- 

 ening of the tarsal joints. The season in which it was obtained,^also, is 

 just that of their leaving the breeding places." 



Wednesday, 25th March 1857. — Andrew Murray, Esq., W. S., Pre- 

 sident, in the Chair. 



Allen Dalzell, M.D., was balloted for and elected a Member of the 

 Society. 



The following eminent foreign naturalists were then elected Foreign 

 Members of the Society : — 



Charles H. Boheman, Professor in the Museum of the Royal Academy 

 of Sciences of Sweden ; Auguste Chevrolat, late President of the Ento- 

 mological Society of France ; C. A. Dohrn, President of the Entomologi- 

 cal Society of Stettin ; Milne Edwards, Member of the Institute, and of 

 the Legion of Honour, Professor of Entomology in the Museum of Natural 

 History, Paris; Leon Fairmaire, Paris, author of the " Faune Entom. 

 Francaise ;" A. Gerstaecker, Director of the Museum, Berlin ; M. Achille 

 Guenee, Chateaudun ; Charles Javet, Paris; G. Kraatz, Berlin, author 

 of many Entomological works ; Theodore Lacordaire, Professor of Zoo- 

 logy and Comparative Anatomy in the University of Liege ; Dr J. L. 

 Leconte, Philadelphia, author of many American Entomological works ; 

 L'Abbe de Marseul, Paris, author of the " Monograph of the Histeridse;" 

 Guerin Meneville, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, editor of " Revue 

 et Magazin de Zoologie ;" M. Obert, Corps de Cadets, Paulou, St Peters- 

 burg ; M. Reiche, Paris, auther of many Entomological works ; The Mar- 

 quis de Laferte Senectere, Tours ; Professor P. C. Zeller, Gross-Glogau, 

 Silesia ; Professor J. W. Zetterstedt, University of Lund. 



Specimens of insects from the Crimea were exhibited, amongst which 

 were several locusts and carabi, — a donation to the Society from James 

 Black, M.D. 



The Communications read were as follows : — 



I. On the Geology of the Neighbourhood ofElie. By the Rev. Walter 

 Wood, A.M., Elie. 



The paper was confined to a view of the relations between the trap and 

 the sedimentary rocks, as displayed on the shore. The prevailing trap 

 rock has been commonly called trap tuffa, but is known by the local name 



