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MEEEIXa ON 2 xd DECEMBER, 1869. 
The monthly meeting was held in the Glover’s 
Hall on the evening of Thursday last—Dr Buchanan 
White in the chair. An ordinary member and a 
corresponding member were elected. A report was 
given in by the Council as to the purchase and dona¬ 
tion of several books to the library, and recommend¬ 
ing that a Conversazione should be given next spring. 
The meeting agreed to the proposals, and remitted 
to the Council to carry out the same. There was 
exhibited a specimen of the Golden-eye Duck Anas 
clangula shot on the Earn the same day. 
The following paper was then read by Dr Buchanan 
AYhite, entitled— 
M A M S 0 D L. 
“ About forty miles west from Beauly, amidst wild and 
lofty mouutains, is Loch Wain, the only phenomenon of 
the kind in Britain. This lake is constantly, both in 
summer and winter covered with ice ; but in the middle 
of June, when the sun is most nearly vertical, a very 
little of the ice in the centre of the lake is dissolved.’’ 
Such was the remarkable statement that met my 
eyes in turning over the pages of ‘ ‘ The Beauties of 
Scotland,” published in Edinburgh in 1808. As I 
was about to spend the summer months in the district 
said to contain such a remarkable natural object, I 
at once determined, that if opportunity occurred, I 
should visit this loch, thinking that it w^as likely to 
be of some interest, even if, as was probable, not a 
trace of ice was to be found on its surface. Accord¬ 
ingly on my arrival in Strathglass I made enquiries 
as to the existence of Loch Wain, and found that it 
was probably the same as Loch-an- Ouan—the ‘ ‘ Green 
Loch”—a small lake lying among the mountains to 
the north of Loch Affaric. Moreover I was interested 
to learn that there existed among the inhabitants of 
the strath a belief, though but slight, in its ice bearing 
properties. Few of the natives however had visited 
the place, and the loch was little better known than 
