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Mr. Peter Cameron road a note of alterations, proposed by him, 

 in the Society's Rules. These were unanimously remitted to the 

 Council for consideration and to be reported on at a future meeting. 



October 3 1st, 1882. 



Mr. John A. Harvie-Brown, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., 



President, in the Chair. 



The following were elected ordinary members of the Society : — 

 Dr. AlexanderHamiltonHowe, F.R.A.S., &c. , Hullerhirst, Stevenston; 

 John Brand, 6 Gayfield Street; George G. Mackenzie, 111 Cathcart 

 Road; .James Xoble, 29 Stanley Street; Miss Adelaide Broadhurst, 

 Park School, Lynedoch Street; and Miss Josephine M'Kean, Park 

 School, Lynedoch Street. 



The Chairman then gave the following address : — 



Address by Mr. John A. Harvie-Brown, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S., 

 M. B. 0. U., President. 



Gentlemen, — My first pleasing duty is to thank you cordially 

 for the honour you have just conferred upon me by electing 

 me your President. My second, in accepting the honour, is to 

 express the hope that I may be able to carry out the Presidential 

 duties to your satisfaction, though I had honestly hoped that some 

 other member of our Society, with more general natural history 

 tastes and less marked specialities than I possess, would have been 

 proposed and elected to the honourable position. 



I propose to-night to glance at the work done by our Society 

 during the past two sessions, 1880-81, and 1881-82. Necessarily 

 I must limit this part of my address to an almost bare enumeration 

 of the titles of papers. Thereafter I propose to throw out some 

 hints tor consideration regarding future work, indicating certain 

 headings in vertebrata as worthy of attention. 



At the meeting in October, 1880, Mr. Peter Cameron read a 

 paper on "A Simple Method of Mounting Objects for Microscopic 

 Examination," and Mr. Mahony contributed an interesting paper 

 " On Shell Mounds in the North of Ireland." At this meeting Mr. 

 Thomas King read a record of the proceedings of the summer 

 session just concluded, shewing the work done at the various 





