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spent in the woods, during which many fungi and mosses were 

 gathered, the members took tea in the Ranfurly Hotel. 



During the summer session there was a good attendance at both 

 meetings and excursions. The largest attendance on any evening 

 was about fifty, the lowest nineteen, the average of the eight 

 meetings being 30 members. 



Mr. Peter Cameron, Convener of the Museum Committee, re- 

 ported as follows : — 



The Committee are not yet in a position to announce that any 

 material has been placed in the custody of Mr. Paton and his 

 assistant Mr. Campbell, as it was considered best not to hand over 

 specimens to the Museum until a fairly representative collection 

 was brought together. Considerable progress has, however, been 

 made in arranging specimens in various branches; and it is expected 

 that before the New Year more or less extensive collections will be 

 fully mounted, named, and catalogued. In Mosses the work is so 

 far advanced that the specimens only require cataloguing, so that 

 by November the Committee hope to deposit in the Museum a 

 collection which will be fairly complete as regards the British 

 species, and which will contain the greater part of the Scottish Mosses. 

 The Committee have also to report that the botanical members 

 arranged, and to some extent, critically examined, two Cabinets of 

 plants which belonged to the old Botanical Society of Glasgow, and 

 which now form part of the Kelvingrove Museum collections, 

 having been presented to that institution by the few surviving 

 members of the above-named Society. 



The reports were all unanimously approved of. 



The Chairman, Professor Young, before retiring from office, gave a 

 short address on the Progress of Zoology in Scotland. 



The following Office-Bearers for the session were then elected: 

 President, John A. Harvie-Brown, F.Z.S., F.R.S.E. &c; Vice- 

 Presidents, John Kirsop, F.S.A. Scot.; Professor John Cieland, 

 M.D., F.R.S.; and Robert Mason; Secretary, John M. Campbell; 

 Treasurer, Robert J. Bennett; Librarian, J. J. F. X. King; members 

 of Council, John Young, F.G.S.; Thomas King, Robert Turner, 

 George J. Combe, Peter Cameron, M. C. Duff, J. B. Murdoch, 

 F.S.A. Scot., Richard Mackay, and Peter Ewing. 



