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Part 3, of the Society's Proceedings and Transactions has been 

 forwarded to 144 Societies, Magazines, and Institutions. A 

 Library Fund, started last Christmas, for the purchase of new 

 Books, and in supplement of the annual grant from the Council 

 for binding, now amounts to £6 14s. Od., additional subscriptions 

 bein£ solicited. 



The Reports were all unanimously approved and adopted. 



The Society then proceeded to the election of Office-Bearers, 

 when Mr. David Robertson, F.L.S., F.G.S., was elected Presi- 

 dent; Mr. Peter Ewing, a Vice-President; Messrs. D. A. Boyd 

 and John Trotter, Secretaries; Mr. John Renwick, Treasurer; Mr. 

 James J. F. X. King, Librarian; and Messrs. R. Turner, Joseph 

 Sommerville, James Stirton, M.D., F.L.S., John Broom, and 

 William Stewart, Members of Council — the Council being as 

 follows : President, David Robertson, F.L.S., F.G.S. ; Vice- 

 Presidents, James Dairon, F.G.S., Thomas King, and Peter 

 Ewing ; Secretaries, D. A. Boyd and John Trotter ; Treasurer, 

 John Renwick ; Librarian, James J. F. X. King ; Members of 

 Council, William Stewart, W. Craibe Angus, James Barrie Low, 

 M.A., A. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., John Broom, James Steel, 

 R. Turner, Joseph Sommerville, James Stirton, M.D., F.L.S. 



Messrs. Da\id Pearson and Thomas G. Bishop were appointed 

 Auditors for the ensuing year. 



The following were elected Ordinary Members : Mr. J. L. 

 Cowan, 13G Wellington Street; Mr. Robert Douglas, 41 Annette 

 Street, Govanhill ; Mr. Richard Kidston, Ferniegair, Helensburgh; 

 Rev. Edward Walters, 31 St. Vincent Crescent ; Mr. S. M. Well- 

 wood, 128 St. Vincent Street, 



Mr. R. Turner moved that the words " But ladies shall be 

 exempt from entry-money " should be added to the first paragraph 

 of Rule XVIII. of the Constitution. The motion was unanimously 

 adopted. 



Mr. Robert Broom, B.Sc, exhibited the skulls of Herpestes 

 bracl/yurus, Gr., and Cynogale Bennettii, Gr., two Civets from 

 Borneo; and he described the chief morphological features of the 

 plantigrade and digitigrade carnivora, to the latter of which the 

 ViverridcB or Civets belong. An interesting series of the skulls of 

 typical species in both groups was shown for comparison. 



Mr. Henry M'Culloch exhibited a partial albino example of the 

 Hedge-sparrow (Accentor modularis, L.), from the neighbourhood of 

 Inveraray. 



