EAST OF SCOTLAND UNION OF NATURALISTS' 

 SOCIETIES, 



ABSTRACT MIHUTES. 



THE Council of the Union met, on the 26th June, 1886, in 

 Aberdeen. The Secretary intimated that during the year 

 the Aberdeen Philosophical Society had joined the Union. He 

 read an intimation that the Committee respecting Corresponding 

 Societies of the British Association had recommended the Union 

 as a Corresponding Society. It was agreed to elect Dr. Howden, 

 or, failing him, Mr. Pullar, as Delegate for the year. 



The Secretary intimated a desire on the part of the Kirkcaldy 

 Naturalists' Society that Clause 4 of the Constitution of the Union 

 should in future stand as follows: -"The business of the Union 

 shall be conducted by the President, along with a Council of 

 Representative Members. Each Society shall be represented by 

 two Delegates if its membership is below 100, and by one addi- 

 tional Delegate for each additional hundred or fraction of one 

 hundred members — the Delegates to be elected annually by each 

 Society in F .the Union. The Council shall appoint one of its 

 members to act as Secretary and Treasurer." The Council 

 unanimously resolved to recommend the change to the considera- 

 tion of the next General Meeting. 



It was resolved to arrange for a three days' excursion to 

 Braemar on 3rd, 4th, and 5th August, and the Secretary was 

 instructed to obtain the names of those members desirous to join. 

 It was resolved to undertake the preparation of a Bibliography 

 of the Fauna, Flora, and Geology of the East of Scotland, and 

 that, with this view, a list of the more important periodicals and 

 works in which information is contained should be drawn up and 

 circulated among the members, with a note, asking each member 

 to mark the book or books he is willing to index for the Biblio- 

 graphy. 



6th August, 1881. — The Council met in Aberdeen, Prof. Trail 



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