KATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. XI 



Honoraiy, 10 Corresponding, and 111 Ordinary Members— the 

 present membership being as follows : 



Honorary, 1-t 



Corresponding, 11 



Ordinary — 



Life Members, 22 



Annual, 2C() 



Suspended, 5 287 



Total Membership, 342 



The Obituary Record of the year contains the names of several 

 well-known and mnch-respectcd members. Mr. James Ramsay, 

 Honoi-ary Member, was for many years connected with the 

 Society, and was at various times elected an office-bearer. 

 While endowed with other accomplishments in more than 

 ordinary degree, Mr. Ramsay's name will long be associated 

 with the progress of Botany in the West of Scotland. In this 

 department of Science he had attained an eminence which 

 entitled him to be regarded as one of the leading botanists of 

 the district, and his influence was in many ways directed 

 towards the popular diffusion of accurate information regarding 

 our native plants. Probably no one has ever been able to 

 acquire so comprehensive a knowledge of the Flora of Clydes- 

 dale and the West of Scotland as he. Professor Alexander 

 Dickson, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S.E., Edinburgh, one of the Ordinary 

 Members, was also connected with the Society for many years ; 

 and both as a member and office-bearer he took an active part 

 in promoting its welfare. His contribvitions to Botanical 

 literature, especially in the department of vegetable morpho- 

 logy, afford evidences of profound scholarship and original 

 research which will secure for them a place amongst the per- 

 manent scientific memorials of our country. Mr. Robert 

 Robertson was esteemed by many friends in the Society, alike 

 for . his kind and genial disposition and for his enthusiastic 

 attachment to Botanical pursuits. 



In reviewing the work of the past winter session, it is 

 gratifying to report that the meetings were marked by an 

 appreciable increase in the importance as well as amount of 

 business brought forward. Although the attendance at the 

 summer meetings and excursions was below the average of past 

 years, yet much useful work has been accomplished, especially 

 in preserving a record of the plants observed at the excursions. 

 Special thanks must be given to those members who have been 

 instrumental in prosecuting this important work ; and it is 

 hoped that the range of such observations may in future be 

 so extended as to enable reports on other branches of Natural 

 History to be furnished to the Society. Reports on the business 



