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INDEX. 



M'Nab (W. E.), exhibits specimens of 

 Coleoptera collected in Egypt by 

 Professor Piazzi Smyth, 335. 



Mandrill baboon exhibited, 212. 



Metamorphism, 191. 



Mergus albellus (smew), exhibited, 237. 



Mergulus rnelanoleucos (rotche or little 

 auk), 176. 



Meteors, various, seen, 69. 



Mineralogy and physical science, pre- 

 sent position of, 1. 



Molecules, material and ethereal me- 

 dium in reference to theory of re- 

 fraction, 248. 



Morrhua punctata, 302. 



vulgaris, variety of " Lord 



Fish," 302. 



Nebulo-geological hypothesis, 118, 

 145. 



Negro Manganya, East Africa, notice 



of skull of, 222. 

 Nests, pensile, of weaver-bird from 



Old Calabar, exhibited, 345. 

 Notes on the gold-fields of Ballarat, 



Australia, 409. 



Office-bearers for Session 1862-63, 16 ; 

 1863-64, 128; 1864-65, 212. 



1865-66, 330. 



Oiketicus, case of an, 311. 

 Ophrydium versatile, Ehr., 46. 

 Ornithological notes, 25, 392, &c. 



Page (David), LL.D., president's ad- 

 dress on the present aspects of geo- 

 logical inquiry, 187. 



notes on the crustacean genus 



stylonurus from the Lower Old Bed 

 Sandstone of Forfarshire, 230. 



president's address, man's 



place in the geological record, 

 313. 



Parus coeruleus (blue titmouse, yellow 

 variety), 207. 



cristatus ( crested titmouse), 176. 



Passage beds, 193. 



Pastor roseus, Temm., (rose-coloured 

 pastor), 392. 



Pearls of the Ythan, Aberdeenshire, 

 by the Rev. James Brodie, Moni- 

 mail, 394. 



Peach (Charles William), fossils of 

 boulder clay of Caithness, 38. 



on the occurrence of the rosy 



feather star, Comatula rosacea, on • 

 the eastern coasts of Scotland, 81. 



list of land and fresh-water 



shells found in the county of Caith- 

 ness, 161. 



Peach (Charles William), on spines 

 and plates of a synapta (Chiradota 

 of Esch), 364. 



on glacial drift of Shetland 



Islands, 385. 



remarks on pearls, 394. 



on boulder clay of Caithness, 



396. 



Pernis apivorus (honey buzzard), ex- 

 hibited, 25, 176, 205. 

 Phalaropus. lobatus (grey phalarope), 

 176. 



Physical changes of the globe, chron- 

 ology uncertain, 323. 

 Picus major, Penn., (great spotted wood- 

 pecker), exhibited, 333. 

 Pile-dwellings in lakes, 322. 

 Pipe fish, gen. Doryichthys, Old Cala- 

 bar, 227. 

 Platymerus Robbianus, n. s., 312. 

 Pleuronectidce, on the development of 

 the, 215. 



Pluto-Huttonism, examination of, 

 152. 



Presidents' addresses — 

 Alexander Bryson, 1. 

 James M'Bain, M.D., 107. 

 David Page, LL.D., 187, 313. 



Quaternary accumulations, 198. 



Raised beach at Ardross, Fife, 72. 

 Rhind (William,), on the irregu- 

 larities of the earth's surface, and 

 the probable mean line of the ter- 

 raqueous circumference, 149. 



■ on the physical characters of 



Rupert district, Red River, Hud- 

 son's Bay, 350. 

 Rhizopod, a new, 153. 

 Rhombus hirtus, 213. 

 Rise of shores of the Firth of Forth, 



on the evidence of, 75. 

 Robb (Rev. Alex.), referred to, 331. 



sends pensile nests of weaver 



birds, &c, from Old Calabar, 345. 



discovery by, of insect feeding 



on the esere, the ordeal or poison 

 bean of Old Calabar, in 1863, 347. 

 Rupert district, Red River, Hudson's 

 Bay, physical character of, by Wil- 

 liam Rhind, 350. 



Scottish coasts, elevation of, by Rev. 

 James Brodie, 342. 



■ upheaval sudden, 344. 



Seton (Major George), exhibition of 

 specimens collected by, in Rupert 

 district, Red River, Hudson's Bay, 

 350, 351. 



