Transactions of the Natural History Society of Glasgow (Volume 3)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892. Excerpt: ... the effect that the subscriptions of Life Members should be set apart to form a fund separate from the ordinary annual income of the Society, and that the capital-sum derived from such separate fund should be invested so as to yield a source of revenue to the Society. Mr. A. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., stated that a Committee had recently been appointed by the Council to arrange for the delivery of ti course of Popular Lectures by distinguished biologists connected with the Society. It was hoped that these Lectures would not only have the effect of keeping the Society, and its objects and work, before the notice of the public, but Also be the means of bringing together the members of the various Biological Societies in the city and surrounding district, and promoting among them a spirit of co-operation. He intimated that arrangements had now been completed for a course of five Lectures, the first of which would be delivered on 13th prox. by Professor James Cossar Ewart, M.D., F.R.CS.E., F.R.S.E., F.L.S., Edinburgh University. Mr. James J. F. X. King exhibited an aWiino Blackbird, Turdus merula, L., recently shot in the neighbourhood of Johnstone by Mr. George Allison, Jun. Rev. John Muir exhibited a series of Ophidia and Scorpionidffl from Southern India, and gave an account of the sub-orders which the specimens illustrated. He also showed an example of Epicrium glutinosum, a footless amphibian found in India and a few other Asiatic countries. Mr. R. Broom, B.Sc, made some remarks on the rarer and more interesting species of Ophidia exhibited by Mr. Muir, among which were specimens of Cynophis malabaricus, Trimeremirus anamallensis, and Passerila purpurascens; and he stated that the last-mentioned species, which is remarkable for its greatlydeveloped rostra...