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important. Notices of the meetings appeared in various local and 

 Edinburgh newspapers, and detailed reports were given in the 

 North British Daily Mail. The proceedings were thus made, 

 in some measure, available to members who were not present 

 at the meetings, and in some instances the reports had been the 

 means of inducing some to join the Society. 



The printing of the Proceedings has made considerable progress, 

 and a new part will shortly be ready for issue. It will contain two 

 instalments of the " Catalogue of the Fauna of Scotland " — the 

 Mammalia, by Mr. Edward R. Alston, F.Z.S., F.G.S., and of the 

 Fresh and Brackish Water Ostracoda, by Mr. David Robertson, 

 F.L.S., F.G.S. 



Towards the close of last Session proposals were made by the 

 Glasgow Society of Field Naturalists for an entrance into this 

 Society, and these being favourably entertained, negociations were 

 entered upon by the respective Committees, resulting in a 

 satisfactory issue; and at the closing meeting the union was 

 consummated by the entrance of the members of the former 

 Society into the Natural History Society of Glasgow. The Council 

 regards this as an event of importance, which will not merely 

 increase the number of members on the roll, but will serve to 

 strengthen the Society and extend its usefulness, the Field 

 Naturalists having given considerable attention to the study of 

 Botany, a department of Natural History which has not for some 

 years been so prominent at the meetings of this Society as it 

 deserves. To meet the views of the Field Naturalists, the Society 

 resolved to institute a Summer Session, extending from May to 

 September. During this term excursions to places of interest 

 will take place, and meetings for the exhibition of specimens 

 and reading of short papers will lie held, but no general business 

 will be transacted. 



At the commencement of the Twenty-Eighth Session it is grati- 

 fying to contrast the respectable position the Society now occupies, 

 with its humble origin. The number attending its first meeting- 

 was only eleven, and since then its progress has been gradual, but 

 constant and steady. "We may therefore hope that it has still before 

 it a long career of prosperity and usefulness, and that as one by 

 one the older members leave us others may take their places and 

 carry on the work. The Council trusts that in the Session now 

 commencing it will be the aim of each member to do what in 



