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Report of the Council (1898-99). 

 Membership. — The present Membership of the Society is as 

 follows : — 



Honorary Members, - - - - - 13 

 Corresponding Members. - - - - 37 



Ordinary Members (Life), - - - 31 

 Annual Subscriptions, - - - 233 



264 



Total, - - - - 314 



Associates. — One Associate was added during the session. The 

 number on the roll stands at 22. 



Obituary. — The death of Mr. Geo. W. Ord is the only one 

 brought under the notice of the Society. (See Trans., Vol. V.. 

 N.S., Part III., p. 319.) 



Meetings. — Twelve were held, at all of which business was 

 transacted, the attendance, with one or two exceptions, being 

 satisfactory. 



Excursions.— Eight ordinary excursions and two evening 

 excursions were arranged, at all of which there was an average 

 attendance. On the Spring Holiday the Society was joined by 

 the Geological Society in an excursion to Callander ; and on the 

 6th May by the Edinburgh Field Naturalists' and Microscopical 

 Society in an excursion to the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens and 

 the Mushroom Tunnel. 



British Association. — Mr. James F. Gemmell, M.A.,M.B., CM., 

 represented the Society as its delegate at the meeting held at 

 Dover. 



Finance. — The Hon. Treasurer (Mr. John Renwick), submitted 

 his Annual Statement of Accounts, duly audited. From this it 

 appeared that the income for the year had been £117 10s. 5d., 

 and the expenditure £142 lis. 9id. There was a credit balance 

 in the Society's Ordinary Fund of £50 3s. Id., and in the Life 

 Members' Fund of £147. The expenditure has been increased, 

 extraordinarily, by the publication of a new Library Catalogue. 



Library. — The Hon. Librarian (Mr. James Mitchell) reported 

 that 332 volumes and journals had been issued during the Session 

 — the largest number ever issued in any year. Eight volumes 

 had been presented to the Society, and 12 volumes had been 



