464 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OP GLASGOW. 



Associates. — One Associate has been added during the year. 

 The number on the roll is 22. 



Obituary. — The obituary record for the year contains the 

 names of Sir James Bain (who joined in 1862), Joseph Christie 

 (1882— see pp. 300-1), Alex. Leitch (1885), James M'Call (1887), 

 Gavin Miller (1858), and an Honorary Member in the person of 

 Mr. Osbert Salvin, M.A., RR.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Meetings. — The usual meetings were held, the attendances 

 being satisfactory. 



Excursions. — A number of excursions was carried out. The 

 attendances were rather better than last year. 



B7^itish Association. — Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot, M.A., B.Sc, 

 F.L.S., F.R.G.S., was the Society's delegate for the meeting held 

 at Bristol. 



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 .£75 4s. 5|d., 

 and in the Life Members' Fund of ,£147. From the balance of 

 £75 4s. 5 Jd. fall to be deducted cost of publishing Transactions for 

 1897-98 and catalogues, and cost of new bookcases. (See page 478.) 



Library. — The Hon. Librarian (Mr. James Mitchell) reported 

 that the number of volumes issued during the session exceeded 

 the record of any previous year. The large additions to the 

 Library having made a new catalogue a desideratum, the Rev. 

 Mr. G. A. Frank Knight kindly undertook to compile one, and 

 it has been completed and issued to the members. The most 

 important addition to the Library during the year was an almost 

 complete set of Reports of the Challenger Expedition. The 

 report acknowledged the good offices of Sir John Murray, K.C.B., 

 LL.D., etc., in this connection, and the debt the Society was 

 under to the Rev. Mr. Knight for the labour involved in the 

 preparation of the new catalogue. 



The Reports were all unanimously approved of and adopted. 



Transactions. — The Hon. Editor (Mr. John Paterson) reported 

 that, in November, 1897, the Transactions for Session 1896-7 

 were issued, and that the material for the Session which had just 

 closed was partly in the press. 



Rev. Mr. G. A. Frank Knight, M.A., Convener of the Museum 

 and Research Committee, and one of the Delegates of the Society 



