

PROCEEDINGS 



NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



SESSION 1882-83. 



THE THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



SOCIETY'S ROOMS, 207 BATH STREET. 



September 26th, 1882. 



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



The Treasurer submitted his Annual Financial Statement, which 

 shewed a balance in favour of the Society of <£54 10s. Id. 



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

 last session. 



Report of the Council. 



The Council have to report that the number of members added 

 to the roll during last session was as follows : — Honorary members, 

 2 ; Corresponding members, 3 ; Ordinary members, 25. After 

 deductions for deaths, resignations, and removals, the total numbers 

 at present are — Honorary members, 9; Corresponding members, 29; 

 and Ordinary members, 260, or an increase of 13 over last session. 



The usual monthly meetings were well attended, the average 

 gathering numbering about 46. The papers read and specimens 

 exhibited were fully up to the average in point of interest. 



Early in the session the agreement between the Society and the 

 Town Council, "in regard to the formation and development of 

 collections of plants and invertebrates" to be kept in Kelvingrove 

 Museum, was duly approved of by the Society, and signed on its 

 behalf by the President, Treasurer, and Secretary. 



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