95 
MEETING ON 2d JUNE, 1870. 
The monthly meeting of the Society was held in the 
Glovers’Hall, on Thursday, 2d June—Mr Dawson, the 
senior Vice-President in the chair. Four gentlemen 
were balloted for and elected members, and other four 
were named for election. The report from the Council 
as to the renting of rooms in St Ann’s Lane for 
meetings, museum, and library, was agreed to, pos¬ 
session to be had immediately ; and instructions were 
given to the Council to provide furniture for the rooms, 
aud cases for the museum. The Librarian requested 
the return of all the books at present out in order to 
have the list re-arranged, including recent additions. 
It was resolved to postpone the monthly meetings in 
July and August, and to begin the session 1870-71 on 
the first Thursday of September. 
The Chairman read tho following 
Report of ait Excursion to Methven Woods. 
On the 26th May (the Queen’s Birth-Day), a party 
of twelve started from Almondbank station, to 
examine these woods, by the kind permission of Mr 
Smythe, one of the patrons of the Society. Our steps 
were directed first of all to the piece of marshy ground 
to the north of the turnpike road, at the fourth mile¬ 
stone from Perth. This spot has all along been 
known by the name of “Methven Bog.” Before, 
however,, reaching the Bog, the roadside afforded 
abundant scope for half-an-hour’s research. The 
large reddish bug, Pentatoma baccarum was found in 
great abundance among the herba-e ; and on the hedi.,e 
many of the Ladybird, Coccinellal-’punctata, andTif 
the beetle, Lyperus Jiavipes, were found. The plants 
of the roadside were Cerastium arvensis (which also 
grows abundantly in the field beyond), Veronica 
arvensiSy a,nd Arenaria serpyllifoUa. Passing 
through a narrow strip of wood we entered the Bog 
by a plank, over a wide wet ditch. The Bog itself 
was comparatively dry, but, in wet weather it ca.i 
seldom be walked over dry-shod. Here were 
captured of Lepidoptera, Euclidia mi, and Fidonia 
atomaria ; of Coleoptera, species of Telephofus and 
