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actions housed there can be consulted or borrowed during the 

 open hours of the Library. Books can also be borrowed from 

 our own Library during the open hours of these rooms. The 

 books in the Library are all in good condition. The Trans- 

 actions and Magazines are all bound up to date.' 1 



Transactions. — The Hon. Editor (Mr. John Pater son) 

 reported on the progress of the work of printing the papers 

 and other material relating to Sessions 1905-6 and 1906-7. 



The Reports were all approved and adopted. 



Vacancies among the office-bearers were filled up by the 

 election of Mr. Robert Henderson as a Vice-President, and 

 Messrs. Thomas Beath Henderson, M.D., Robert W. S. Wilson, 

 John Cairns, jun., and T. Thornton Mackeith, as Members of 

 Council. 



Messrs. James Jack and Joseph Sommerville were re- 

 appointed as Auditors. 



Mr. Cameron Davidson, Windyhill, Kilmacolm, was elected 

 an Ordinary Member. 



A Report on an Excursion to Dunure was submitted by Mr. 

 John Smith, Corresponding Member (page 252). 



Mr. Peter Ewing, F.L.S., the Society's representative at the 

 recent meeting of the British Association at Leicester, sub- 

 mitted a report on the business discussed at the two meetings 

 of Delegates from Corresponding Societies, at both of which 

 he was present. Special reference was made to the address 

 delivered at the first meeting by the president, Mr. H. J. 

 Mackinder, on the advancement of geographical science by 

 local societies, and to the subject of correlation of work by 

 such societies. At the second meeting, the principal speaker 

 was Mr. Carleton Rea, Worcester, who urged that fungi should 

 receive much more attention from provincial societies than had 

 hitherto been bestowed. The subject of rainfall records was 

 also introduced by Dr. H. R. Mill, who recommended that 

 the number of observing stations throughout the country 

 should be largely increased. Mr. Ewing offered some practical 

 suggestions indicative of how the Society might take an active 

 and useful part in these and other kindred investigations. 



Dr. Thomas Beath Henderson exhibited dried skins of Bitis 

 gabonica, D. & B., and B. nasicornis, Shaw, two species of 



