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Ordinary Meeting, March 8th, 1887. 
Professor Balfour Stewart, LL.D., F.B.S., in the Chair. 
A brief discussion took place on the Magnetic Phenomena 
observed during the earthquake in the Biviera on February 
23rd. 
MICROSCOPICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SECTION. 
Ordinary Meeting, February 14th, 1887. 
Professor W. C. Williamson, LL.D., F.B.S., President of the 
Section, in the Chair. 
Mr. W. Blackburn, F.R.M.S., exhibited a specimen of 
cremated bone, and described the method of cremation at 
Milan. 
“Notes upon the Discovery in Scotland of Triticum 
(Agropyrum) violaceum (Hornemann) and Aira (Des- 
champsia) fiexuosa (Trin) var: nov: Voirlichensis (Melvill),'’ 
by J. Cosmo Melyill, M.A., F.L.S. 
I. Triticum violaceum (Hornemann). 
In the summer of 1878 I paid a visit to Ben Lawers, a 
mountain I had previously visited several times, and on 
a ridge of rocks overhanging Lochnagat, between Ben 
Lawers proper and the Stuic-an-lochan rocks at about 3000 
feet elevation, came upon a tract ricli in Alpine plants. Here 
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