132 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



British Association. — The Society is again enrolled on the List 

 of Corresponding Societies of the British Association. Professor 

 F. O. Bower, D.Sc, was appointed delegate for the Annual 

 Conference. 



Finance. — The Hon. Treasurer (Mr. John Renwick) submitted 

 his Annual Statement of Accounts, duly audited. This statement 

 showed a balance in the Society's Ordinary Fund of £97 6s. 5^d., 

 and in the Life Members' Fund of £141 15s. From the Ordinary 

 Fund balance there falls to be deducted the cost of publishing 

 Transactions till 31st August, 1896, and the cost of Seebohm's 

 British Birds' Eggs. (See page 151.) 



The Beports were all unanimously approved of and adopted. 



Vacancies in the Council were then filled up by the election of 

 the following gentlemen: — Mr. Bobert Kidston, F.B.S.E., F.G.S., 

 as President ; Mr. Joseph Somerville as Yice- President ; Messrs. 

 S. M. Wellwood and B. D. Wilkie as Hon. Secretaries ; Mr. John 

 Renwick as Hon. Treasurer; Mr. James Mitchell as Hon. 

 Librarian; Mr. Alex. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., as Hon. Editor; 

 Messrs. Bobert Brown, M.D., John Fleming, Geo. Bussell, and 

 the Bev. G. A. Frank Knight, M.A., as Members of Council. 

 The Council consists, besides the foregoing, of the following 

 gentlemen whose term of office has not expired — Messrs. Peter 

 Ewing, F.L.S., and William Stewart, Vice-Presidents, John 

 Cairns, Jun., J. Bruce Hunter, Richard M'Kay, Johnston 

 Shearer, Robert Dunlop, Bobert M. Morton, John Paterson, and 

 James Whitton. 



Messrs. James Jack and William Leighton were appointed 

 Auditors. 



Messrs. William Adam, 31 Commerce Street; Frank H. Agnew, 

 43 Dixon Avenue; G. F. Scott Elliot, M.A. (Cambridge), B.Sc. 

 (Edinburgh), F.L.S., F.R.G.S. ; Charles Hogg, 9 Wilson Street, 

 Paisley; Geo. W. Ord, 198 St. James's Road; and Hugh Boyd 

 Watt, 101 St. Vincent Street, were elected as Ordinary Members. 



Messrs. Anderson Fergusson and Thomas Wilson were elected 

 as Associates. 



The Hon. Librarian intimated that the relatives of the late 

 President (Professor King) had presented to the Society his valu- 

 able collection of scientific books, numbering about 150 volumes. 

 The thanks of the Society were heartily accorded for the valuable 

 gift. 



