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Delegate, and the Secretary was instructed to take the necessary 

 steps to have his appointment certified out. 



It was unanimously resolved with reference to the Scientific 

 Reports that the Council in returning their thanks to the various 

 reporters for their past work, recommend that the authority given 

 to these gentlemen at last annual meeting should be continued, 

 and that the further Reports should be made on the lines sketched 

 out in the first Presidential Address. 



It was unanimously agreed that Professor Trail, Dr. F. B. White, 

 and the Secretary should be the publication Committee, with full 

 powers to decide what shall be published, and to take steps to 

 obtain the assistance of members to collect all the information, 

 scattered through books and periodicals, relating to the Natural 

 History of the district, in view of the preparation of full index- 

 lists, for future publication in the Proceedings of the Union. 

 Annual General Meeting. 



The Annual General Meeting was held in the Town Hall, Kirk- 

 caldy, on Friday, 4th September, 1885, at 14.30 o'clock (2.30 p.m.) 

 — Dr. F. Buchanan White in the chair. 



The minutes of last annual meeting, and of all the meetings of 

 Council since, having been read and approved, Dr. F. B. White 

 introduced as President for the year Professor James Geikie, who 

 gave the Presidential Address. 



The following Papers and Reports were then read : — 



" Meteorology," by Mr. David Cunningham, M. Inst. 



C E., Dundee. 

 "Sprats," „ Dr. F. Buchanan White, F.L.S., 



Perth. 



" Mollusca," „ Mr. Henry Coates, Perth. 



" Birds of the District," „ Col. Drummond Hay, C.M.Z.S., 



Perth. 

 "Fungi of the District," „ Professor J. W. H. Trail, F.L.S., 



Aberdeen. 

 " Flora of Fife and Kinross," „ Mr. Charles Howie, Largo. 



In the evening the guests from the sister-societies were most 

 hospitably entertained to dinner by the members of the Kirkcaldy 

 Natural History Society ; and at 20 o'clock (8 p.m.), a conver- 

 sazione was held in the Corn Exchange, and was the scene of a 

 large gathering of naturalists and their friends. A great variety of 



