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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 hj, . , . 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 Rev. 
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 Camptown, 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 (Gliira- 
dota of Esch.), from the Stomach of a Flat-fish, taken off the 
East Coast of Scotland, . 364 
