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potato forms the staple article of food. I find that from the 

 meteorological report the annual rainfall of Valdivia is 99 inches, 

 spread over all the months of the year. 



October 25th, 1881. 



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



Mr. David Taylor, 49 Virginia Street; Mr. Robert Bullen, Royal 

 Botanic Gardens; and Dr. James Adams, 49 Cambridge Street, 

 were elected ordinary members of the Society. 



The secretary read the following Agreement between the Society 

 and the Town Council regarding the formation and development of 

 collections of Plants and Invertebrata for the Kelvingrove Museum. 



Agreement between the Natural History Society of Glasgow of 

 the first part, and the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Council of the 

 City of Glasgow, acting under the Glasgow Public Parks Act, 

 Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-eight, of the second part, in regard 

 to the formation and development of collections of Plants and 

 Invertebrata. 



It is agreed as follows : — 



First.— The first party shall hand over to the second party, for 

 the purpose of being placed in the Kelvingrove Museum, certain 

 collections of Insects and Plants in possession of the first party, and 

 shall supplement these and add other branches of British Inverte- 

 brata and Plants from time to time, accurately named and 

 systematically arranged. 



Second. — The second party shall (1) supply (a) materials required 

 for mounting and holding the specimens, (b) properly constructed 

 dust-tight cabinets to contain the specimens, and (c) keep the 

 cabinets always supplied with camphor, or other insecticide, and 

 otherwise in such a way as may best preserve the contents. 

 (2.) Keep a register (apart from the general register of said Museum) 

 of all specimens presented, the register to contain — (a), the name 

 of the species; (bj, the locality and date when found; (c), the 

 donor's name; (d), date of presentation. Each specimen shall 

 have a number on it corresponding with that in the register, to be 

 labelled with the name in the case of pinned insects, and, in the case 

 of carded specimens and mounted plants, the name and locality to 

 be written on the card or paper on which the specimen is mounted. 



