The Scottish Naturalist. 



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Young, Mr. Dugald Bell, and others, and an important one by a 

 well-known authority on fossil botany, Mr. Robert Kidston, and 

 " On the Fructification and Internal Structure of Carboniferous 

 Ferns in their relation to those of Existing Genera, with special 

 reference to British Palaeozoic Species." 



GLASGOW FIELD GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



THIS recently formed Society held its usual monthly meeting 

 on Thursday the nth September, in the Y.M.C.A. Hall, 

 Oxford Street, S.S. In the absence of the Secretary the Minutes 

 of previous meeting were read by Mr. J. D. M'Culloch, after 

 which short papers were read concerning the Society's recent visits 

 to the following districts : Foxley, Cathkin, Busby, Corrie-burn, 

 and Cragen Glen. 



At the close of the meeting some very fine mineral specimens 

 from the North of Ireland were exhibited by Mr. George Wilson, 

 and also a few rock specimens from the above districts were 

 shown and commented upon by the respective leaders of these 

 excursions. 



ABEKDEEN WOEKING MEN'S NATUKAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



THIS Society, though young, has done excellent work in pro- 

 moting the love of all branches of Natural History among 

 its members and their friends ; and the annual exhibition of 

 specimens has proved increasingly successful. This year the 

 exhibition is to be open to the public, in the large hall known as 

 the Song School in Aberdeen, in the evenings from Oct. 4th to 

 Oct. nth. Such efforts are a hopeful sign to all lovers of Nature. 



ENTOMOLOGIST. 

 Vol. xxi., 1888 {Aug.)— Deilephila Galii in Aberdeenshire (on 17th 



July), by Arthur Home. 



{Sep.)— Deilephila Galii in Scotland (near Dundee on 4th 

 August), by Peter Kirk. Retarded emergence of Shet- 

 land Lepidoptera, by J. W. Tutt. 



{Dec.)— In Contributions towards a list of the varieties 

 of British Noctuae Mr. J. W. Tutt notes Hydrcecia micacea 

 var. brunnea Tutt, from Pitcaple. 



Vol, xxii., 1889 {Jan.)— The Insect-fauna of St. Kilda, by C. W. 



Dale, enumerates eighteen species of Coleoptera, 1 Butterfly, 4 

 Moths, 3 Trichoplera, 3 Dipte/a, 2 Hemiptera y and the common 

 Earwig. The Genus Scoparia, by C. A. Briggs. 



