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INDEX. 
M'Nab (W. K.), exhibits specimens of 
Coleoptera collected in Egypt by 
Professor Piazzi Smyth, 335, 
Mandrill baboon exhibited, 212. 
Metamorphism, 191. 
Mergus alhellus (smew), exhibited, 237. 
Mergulus melanoleucos (rotche or little 
auk), 176. 
Meteors, various, seen, G9. 
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, 802. 
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 Red 
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. I 
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 lohatus (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 Rohhianus, n. s., 312. 
PleuronectidoR, 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 pi'obable 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. 
Rhor)ihus 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. 
