NATURAL HISTORY IN THE EAST OF SCOTLAND. 



At the first annual meeting of the East of Scotland Union 

 of Naturalists' Societies, held at Dundee on Friday (June 6), 

 preliminary reports were submitted in the following departments 

 of natural science, prepared to indicate briefly the present infor- 

 mation and the more important work yet to be done in each, 

 within the district embraced in the Union :— Mammalia, Dr. 

 Buchanan White, Perth ; Birds, Colonel Drummond Hay, Seggie- 

 den, Perth; Insects, Dr. White; Mollusca, Mr. H. Coaies, 

 Perth ; Crustacea and Echinodermata, Mr. G. Sim, Aber- 

 deen ; other Invertebrata, Dr. Borie, Dundee ; Vascular 

 Plants, Mosses, and Lichens, Dr. White; Freshwater 

 Algee, Mr. Roy, Aberdeen ; Marine Algse, Dr. Crichton, 

 Arbroath ; Fungi, and Plants as subject to. and as 

 causes of disease, Brof. J. IV. H. Trail, Aberdeen ; 

 Suggestions regarding Laboratory "Work, Mr. Breb?ier, 

 Dundee ; Geology and Palaeontology, Messrs. Durham and 

 Walker, Newport ; Mineralogy, Rev. W. Bey ton, Broughty- 

 Ferry ; Meteorology, Mr. Cunningham, Dundee. 



Dr. Howden, Montrose, was prevented by illness from reporting 

 on the Reptiles, Amphibia, and Fishes of the district. 



It was resolved to have these reports printed, along with the 

 President's address, which bore on the same lines of work. Com- 

 mittees were thereafter appointed (with the above-named gentle- 

 men as conveners, and to include any member of the Union that 

 desires to be upon them), to collect information with the view of 

 preparing exhaustive catalogues and reports on the various de- 

 partments above specified. 



It may be stated that reporters are especially required for the 

 groups of Mosses and Lichens, and any one willing to under- 

 take to report on these groups in the East of Scotland, is re- 

 quested to communicate with Mr. F. W. Young, High School, 

 Dundee. 



The work of the committees will for the most part be done by 

 correspondence with the conveners. For the successful accom- 



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