Meeting on i2th april, isto. 
The monthly meeting was held in the Glovers' 
Hall on Tuesday last, the 12th inst. — Dr Buchanan 
^Vhite, president, in the chs ir. There was an average 
attendance. Five gentlemen were elected members, 
and five proposed for election, one of these as a cor¬ 
responding member. The following donations were 
laid on the table : — From Mr Lamb, stuffed speci¬ 
mens of brent goo^Q (Berni cl a melano'psis) and wood¬ 
cock ( Rusticola sylvestris); from Mr Sadler, a series 
of mounted specimens illustrative of the genus Carex 
as represented in Britain ; from Miss Macdonald, 
large nest of a species of wasp found at Springland. 
The President reported an excursion to Methven bog 
last week, when 184 specimens of Coleoptera, erm 
bracing sixty-three species, and fourteen species of 
Hemiptera were collected. He also announced the 
discovery of anew station for Clirysosplenium alterni- 
folium^ near the river Almond, and of Vertigo 
antivertigo, a shell new to the district, at Quarrynill. 
Mr M‘Farlane also reported same place as a new 
station for Helix acideata. The senior Vice-Presi¬ 
dent showed plants of the fern Hymenophyllum 
Wilso3ii,\^h.ich. he had gathered in Menstry Glen in 
the county, on the southern slope of the Ochils. It 
was stated that other stations for it in Perthshire 
were, the upper ejid of the Small Glen, and the 
Stank Burn, near Loch Lubnaig. It was resolved 
that the botanical class conducted by the President 
should be opened next week. 
The following paper by Mr Lamb was read on 
THE FALCONID^ OF PERTHSHIEE. 
In Ornithology the birds of prey appear as a very 
prominent and well marked group, and I presume 
that in consequence of this they have been made, in 
their subdivision of Falconidae, the first of a series of 
papers which I shall rejoice to see written on the 
birds of the county. I regret, however, that from 
circumstances wLieh shall be commented on towards 
the close of this paper, that I have to approach this 
subject vety much with the feelings of one who 
writes of departed friends. In the course of a long 
