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PROCEEDINGS 



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NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



SESSION 1880-81. 



THE TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 

 ANDERSON'S COLLEGE BUILDINGS, 



October 5th, 1880. 



Professor John Young, M.D., F.G.S., President, in the chair. 



The Treasurer submitted his Annual Financial Statement, 

 duly audited by Messrs. James Lumsden and George E. Paterson, 

 the balance in Bank and in the hands of the Treasurer being 

 £56 19s. 3d. He called attention to the gradual decrease of the 

 Society's funds, and suggested that means should be adopted by 

 increasing the membership, or otherwise, to obtain a larger revenue 

 in order to meet the expense of an annual publication of the 

 Proceedings, and a larger prospective outlay on the Library. 



The Secretary read the Report of the Council on the business of 

 last session, which gave a favourable account of the progress of 

 the Society and of its prospects in the future. The usual eight 

 monthly meetings were held, and were all well attended, the 

 interest being maintained until the close. Full reports appeared 

 regularly in the North British Daily Mail, and so brought the 

 Proceedings under the notice of the absent members and the general 

 public. The number of life and ordinary members on the roll 

 at last annual meeting was 174; 11 new entrants were received 

 during the session, and these, with the addition of the members of 

 the Field Naturalists' Society, after allowing for deaths and with- 

 drawals, make up the number to 230, being an increase of 56 since 

 last Report. The obituary of the year records the death of two 



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