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Dr. White having referred to the loss which the Union has sus- 

 tained by the death of Dr. James S. Crichton, Arbroath, the following 

 minute was unanimously agreed upon : 



"The Council desire to place on record their sense of the great 

 loss that the Union has sustained by the death of Dr. James S. 

 Crichton of Arbroath, a loss felt not only by the Union, but also 

 by the scientific world at large. In Dr. Crichton the Union has lost 

 a valued member of Council, a zealous worker, and a true friend. 

 The Council are confident that in recording their sincere sympathy 

 with Mrs. Crichton in her bereavement, they are expressing the 

 feeling of every member of the Union." 



The Annual General Meeting was held in the Museum of the 

 P. S. N. S. in Tay Street, Perth, at 20 o'clock (8 p.m.), Dr. Buchanan 

 White being in the chair. 



The minutes of meetings since the last general meeting were read 

 and approved ; and the Secretary was instructed to forward to Mrs. 

 Crichton a copy of the minute regarding the late Dr Crichton. 



Dr. White introduced Mr. Roy, President-elect, who then took the 

 chair, and gave his presidential address. Mr. James Durham read a 

 paper on an Ancient Volcanic Glass found near Newport, Fife, and 

 exhibited a specimen. Dr. White, on behalf of Prof. Trail, presented 

 the annual report on Fungi of the East of Scotland ; and on behalf 

 of Mr. Wm. Wilson, jun., Alford, a paper on the Rock Dove of 

 Central Aberdeenshire, and a note on a new form of the Lady Fern, 

 from the Coreen Hills, in Aberdeenshire, for which Mr. Wilson pro- 

 posed the name Athyrium Filix-fcemina, var. acrocladon. The paper 

 was accompanied by a specimen. In the discussion that followed 

 the paper, the President stated that the form had been familiar to 

 him for years, and was not rare. Mr. Henry Coates, on behalf of 

 Prof. Trail, submitted a paper on the Gall-making Diptera of Scot- 

 land. Mr. Young, on behalf of Mr. R. N. Kerr, read a paper on the 

 habits of the Dipper. Mr. J. Martin White gave a verbal report on 

 the British Association Meeting of 1886. 



Votes of thanks were accorded to the authors and readers of the 

 papers and reports ; and a vote of thanks to the President closed the 

 meeting. 



In the afternoon the delegates and others were entertained to 

 dinner in the Salutation Hotel by Mr. Robert Pullar, F.R.S.E. A 

 large number of gentlemen were present, and the gathering was most 

 enjoyable and harmonious. The toasts were eminently suitable to 

 the occasion, no less in the manner in which they were proposed 

 than in their nature. 



