PROCEEDINGS-PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. CXV11 
if printed, gives no information beyond the name and the locality. The 
reason is, I think, that the German is content to possess the thing 
itself, and to leave the descriptive part to handbooks, which, by the 
way, are very good. In the old museums the architectural work was 
left too much to the architect, and, as a result, we see beautiful halls 
suited for almost any other purpose but that of a museum. 
The following paper was read :— 
“The Criminal.” By Dr. Urquhart, Murray’s Royal Asylum. 
9th January, 1902. 
Henry Coates, F.R.S.E., President, in the Chair. 
The President exhibited a case of Humming Birds from Ecuador. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. “The Geology and Mineralogy of Creag na Caillich.” (See 
Trans., Vol. IIP, Part IV., page 155). 
2. The Blood Vascular System in Animals.” By James Stewart, 
L.D.S. The paper was illustrated by numerous diagrams. 
13th February, 1902. 
Henry Coates, F.R.S.E., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. R. H. Meldrum recorded the finding of a rare Moss, Aida- 
comnium htrgidum, Schwgr., on Ben More by Professor Barker of 
Stockport. 
Mr. MTntosh, Inver, sent specimens of Fungi, which were on 
exhibition. Mr. MTntosh also forwarded the following note, which 
was read by Mr. Barclay : — 
“I am sending specimens of fungi which grow on the dead branches 
of trees, such as the oak and the beech. These fungi are Corticium 
comedens, Nees, and C. quercinum , Pers. They are both common, and 
grow most vigorously during the late autumn and winter months. 
My purpose in sending them is to show that they have been nibbled 
by squirrels, and that they have undoubtedly been used by them as 
food. In such seasons as the present, when the crop both of cones 
and of beech mast is scanty, squirrels feed to a considerable extent 
on both these fungi, but especially on C. comede?is. This is easily 
seen from the numbers of these fungi which are marked by the teeth 
of squirrels, as in the case of the specimens which I have forwarded. 
“ Besides these two fungi, it is well known that squirrels in the 
late summer and autumn months feed largely on what may be called 
toad-stool fungi. A great favourite with them is Ammanita i'ubesce?is , 
