290 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
however, was appointed to attend the meetings of this year on 
behalf of the Society. 
The Hon. Treasurer (Mr. John Renwick) submitted an audited 
Statement of Accounts for the year ended 3lst August, 1894, 
which showed a balance of £68 19s. 44d., exclusive of—(1) £100, 
Life Members’ Fund, invested on Debenture; (2) £26, Life 
Members’ Fund, invested in National Security Savings Bank ; and 
(3) value of books and other property insured for £300. Out of 
the above balance (£68 19s. 44d.), there will fall to be paid the 
cost of the Transactions of the last two Sessions (1892-93, 
1893-94) when these have been published. 
The Hon. Librarian (Mr. James Mitchell) reported on the state 
of the Library and the circulation of books. 
The Reports were all unanimously approved and adopted. 
The Society then proceeded to fill up the vacant offices in the 
Council, when Mr. D. A. Boyd was elected a Vice-President ; 
Messrs, John Cairns, Jun., Peter Ewing, J. Bruce Hunter, and 
Johnston Shearer, Members of Council. The Council being as 
follows :—President, Professor Thomas King; Vice-Presidents, 
Peter Ewing, Robert Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., D. A. Boyd; 
Secretary, R. 8. Wishart, M.A.; Treasurer, John Renwick ; 
Librarian, James Mitchell ; Members of Council, Robert Dunlop, 
Alexander Hill, Duncan M‘Kenzie, James Steel, W. A. Dobie, 
David Pearson, William Stewart, Robert D. Wilkie, John Cairns, 
Jun., J. Bruce Hunter, Richard M‘Kay, and Johnston Shearer. 
Messrs. Thomas G. Bishop and F. N. Sloane, C.A., were 
appointed Auditors for the ensuing year. 
Dr. Robert Brown, Belhaven House, 1 Leslie Road, Pollok- 
shields, was elected an Ordinary Member; and the following 
ladies were admitted as Associates :—Misses Alberta, Elma, and 
Wanda Zamorska, 32 Rupert Street, and Miss Annie Arthur, 7 
Finlayson Place, Kelvinside. 
~ Mr. James Campbell, C.M., exhibited the fruit of the cocoa 
plant, Theobroma Cacao, L., and the nutmeg, Myristica moschata, 
Thunb., the latter showing the developed aril known as mace. 
Mr. Campbell also showed a series of shells of great beauty from 
the South Sea Islands. 
Mr. Oswald Fergus, D.D.S., exhibited a collection of Lepidoptera 
from British Central Africa. ; 
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