128 The Scottish Naturalist. 



Secretary — K Buchanan White, M.D., F.L.S., Editor of Scottish 



Natitralist. 



Treasurer— Rev. J. Stevenson, M.A., Glamis, Forfarshire. 



Members of Council — 



Rev. J. Fergusson, M.A., Fern, near Brechin, Forfarshire. 



Rev. M. Anderson, M.A., Menmuir, Forfarshire (or after July, St 



Andrews, Fife). 

 Rev. J. Keith, M.A., Forres. 



J. Roy, Secretary of the Natural History Society, Aberdeen. 

 Colonel Drummond Hay, C.M.Z. S , of Seggieden, Perthshire. 

 G. Ogilvie, M.D., Professor of Institutes of Medicine, University of 



Aberdeen. 

 C. Howie, Secretary of the Largo Naturalists' Field Club, Largo, Fife. 



Botanists who may wish to see the Laws of the Society may obtain a copy 

 by applying to us. 



At a Council Meeting held immediately aferwards — the President in the 

 chair — it was determined that the Annual Meeting should be held this 

 year at Perth, at the end of September. The programme of arrangements 

 for that meeting (as far as they have been made) will be found on the 

 wrapper (pp. 3 and 4). 



We may mention that several of the most distinguished English myco- 

 logists have already intimated their intention to attend the meeting ; and 

 that the date of the most important of the Fungus Shows in the south, 

 viz., the Hereford Fungus Foray, has been fixed so that the two Shows 

 will not interfere with each other. We trust that all our friends, in every 

 direction, will help to make the Meeting and Show successful and interest- 

 ing in every way. 



VAEIOUS NOTES. 



We have received a " Guide to Belfast and the adjacent Counties," by the 

 Belfast Naturalists' Field Club. This little volume was originally got 

 up as a contribution from the Field Club, to add to the interest of the 

 British Association Meeting at Belfast last year, but though that of course 

 was only a temporary meeting, yet the "Guide" contains a considerable 

 amount of information which renders it of permanent value. It contains 

 sketches of the various departments of the local natural history, as well as 

 articles on the history, antiquities, agriculture, etc., of the district, and is 

 illustrated by 46 plates. Considering the proximity of that part of Ireland 

 to Scotland, the book will be found to contain a good deal to interest a 

 Scottish Naturalist, while to those who visit the locality it will be of great 

 service. Similar societies in other districts might do well to follow the ex- 

 ample of the Belfast Field Club, and get up similar handy "Guides" for 

 their own localities. 



