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CONTENTS. 



central parts of Scotland must have been the effect of a sudden 

 upheaval, . . . . . . . 336 



II. White (Adam), Note of the Occurrence of the Death's Head 



Moth in Shetland, &c, ..... 345 



III (1.) Smith (Dr John Alex.), Specimens of Weaver Bird's Pensile 

 Nests, &c., recently sent from Old Calabar by the Rev. 

 Alexander Robb, exhibited by, . . . 345 



(2.) Smith (Dr John Alex.), A Specimen of the Lanius excubitor 



(the Great Grey Shrike), shot near Roslin, exhibited, 346 



IV. Logan (George), Note of a Bone of the Bos primigenius, found 



near Dunse, Berwickshire, ..... 347 

 V. Smith (John Alex.), M.D., Notes on the Discovery, by the Eev. 

 Alexander Robb, in 1863, of an Insect feeding on the Esere, 

 the Ordeal or Poison Bean of Old Calabar, . . 347 



February 28, 1866. 



I. Rhind (William), Notice of the Physical Characters of Rupert 



District, Red River, Hudson Bay. With exhibition of Speci- 

 mens collected by Major George Seton, . . . 350 



II. (1.) Smith (John Alex.), M.D., Note of the Occurrence of the 



Death's-Head Moth in Roxburghshire, Perthshire, and 

 Ross-shire, ...... 353 



(2.) Smith (J. A.), M.D., exhibited specimen of a Lanius Ex- 

 cubitor (the Great Grey Shrike), shot in the end of Jan- 

 uary by a keeper of Sir H. J. Seton Stuart, Bart., at 

 Allanton, near Motherwell, Lanarkshire, . . 355 



(3.) Smith (J. A .), M.D., exhibited a large specimen of the 



Cyclopterus lumpus (the Lumpsucker), . . 355 



(4.) Smith (John Alex.), M.D., Notes of the Insects which feed 



on the Esere, or Ordeal-Bean of Old Calabar, . 356 



III. Fraser (Thomas R.), M.D., Note on a Communication by Dr 



J. A. Smith, entitled " Notes on the Discovery by the Rev. 

 Alexander Robb, in 1863, of an Insect feeding on the Ordeal 

 or Poison Bean of Calabar." Communicated by William 

 Turner, M.B., President, ..... 360 



IV. (1.) White (Adam), late of British Museum, Notice of the 



Nests of two Exotic Spiders, .... 361 

 (2.) Skirving (R. Scot), of Camptovvn, Notes on the Appearance 

 and Migration of some of the Birds of East Lothian. 

 Communicated by Adam White, Esq., . . 362 



V. Peach (Charles W.), On Spines and Plates of a Synapta (Chira- 



clota of Esch.), from the Stomach of a Flat-fish, taken oif the 

 East Coast of Scotland, . . . - .. 364 



