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Lomond in the beginning of January last. The bird was 

 sent by Sir James Colquhoun of Luss, Bart., to Mr Small, 

 bird-stuffer, for preservation. Bewick's swan is distinguished 

 from the other swans by its smaller size, and by the yellow 

 spot on the base of the bill, which colour, however, does not 

 reach to the nostrils. Irides orange-yellow. Bewick's swan 

 does not appear to be common in Scotland, or it may not 

 have been distinguished in many cases from the common 

 wild swan or Hooper. 



Of the four swans noticed in Britain, two — the Hooper and 

 Bewick's swan — have the base of the bill yellow, and the front 

 black ; and have the trachea elongated, and a loop of it en- 

 closed in the dilated keel of the breast bone. The other two 

 — the Mute swan and the Polish — have the base of the bill 

 black, and the front yellow, and have apparently no elonga- 

 tion of the trachea, and no enclosure of it in the breast bone. 



Wednesday, 21th March 1861. Thomas Strethill Wright, M.D,, 



President, in the Chair. 

 The following gentlemen were elected Members of the Society : — 

 Mr Hugh Fulton, Deputy Harbour-Master, Granton ; James Struthers, 

 M.D., Charlotte Street, Leith ; John Wilson, Esq., Janefield House, 

 Duddingston; Alexander Logan, Esq., Teind Office, H.M. General Re- 

 gister House. 



As Non- Resident Members : — Robert Logan, Esq., Surgeon, Lanark ; 

 and Rev. John Struthers, Minister of Prestonpans. 



The following donations to the Library were laid on the table, and 

 thanks voted to the donors : — 



1. The Canadian Journal, New Series, No. XXXI., January 1861. — 

 From the Canadian Institute, Toronto. 2. A Lunar Tidal W r ave in 

 Lake Michigan. Demonstrated by Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel J. D. 

 Graham, U.S. Top. Engineers (with Plates). Chicago, 1860. — From the 

 Author. 



The Communications read were as follow : — 

 I. Note on the Occurrence of Vanessa polychloros and Cheimatobia bo- 

 rearia in Edinburghshire. (Specimens were exhibited.) By R. F. 

 Logan, Esq. 



Mr K. F. Logan exhibited two additions to the entomo- 

 logy of Mid-Lothian, Vanessa polychloros and Cheimatobia 

 borearia, the former a single specimen, taken in a garden 

 at Duddingston — the latter found in the larva state, on 

 birches, at the base of the Pentlands, in June 1860, and re- 



