NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. XXxix 



• The warmest thanks of the Society are due to the Lecturers, 

 for their kind and generous services ; to the members of the 

 Lectures Committee, and especially to the Convener, Mr. A. 

 Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., for their laborious care in making 

 and carrj-ing out the necessary arrangements ; and to the 

 numerous donors to the Lectures Fund, by whose subscriptions 

 the entire expenses have been defrayed. 



British Aesociation — The Society continues to be enrolled on 

 the corresponding list of the British Association. On the 

 occasion of the recent visit of the Association to Newcastle, 

 Professor F. O. Bower, D.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., kindly acted as 

 our delegate, and the grateful thanks of the Society are due to 

 him for these services. 



DonatiotvK, c<c.— Special thanks are also due to members and 

 friends who have presented books to the librarj-, subscribed to 

 the funds of the Society, or in any way aided its work or 

 promoted its welfare. 



The Treasurer (Mr. John Renwick) submitted an audited 

 Statement of Accounts, showing a balance of £67 12s. 3d. at 

 the credit of the Society, exclusive of £100 invested on debenture, 

 and the value of books and other property insvtred for £300. 



The Librarian (Mr. James J. F. X. King) reported as follows: 



About 400 separate publications have been added during the 

 year ; these have been obtained by exchange, donation, and 

 purchase. The number of bound volumes in the Library now 

 reaches 1,040. The number of volumes borrowed during the 

 past year was only 139, 29 of which were taken out during the 

 Summer Session ; this shows a great falling off from the 

 previous session. "With a view to reducing our stock of 

 publications, it is proposed that members should have a copy 

 of Parts II. and V. of the Transactions of the Glasgow Society 

 of Field Naturalists free on application to the Librarian. The 

 price of bound copies of the Fauna and Flora of the West of 

 Scotland (1876) is now reduced to Is. 6d. ; and members can 

 have tinbound copies (in the form of loose sheets) at Od. each. 



The Reports were all unanimously approved and adopted. 



The Society then proceeded to the election of Offlce-Bearers, 

 when Mr. Itobert Turner was elected a Vice-President ; Mr. 

 James Steel, a Secretary ; and Messrs. Thomas King, R. S. 

 Wishart, JIA., James Barrie Low, M.A., David Peaison, and 

 Johnston Shearer, Members of Council— the Couiicil being as 

 follows : President, David Robertson, F.L.S., F.G.S. ; Vice- 

 Presidents, Peter Ewing, A. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., and 

 Robert Turner ; Secretaries, D. A. Boyd and James Steel ; 

 Treasurer, John Renwick ; Libraiian, James J. F. X. King ; 

 Members of Council, Joseph Sommerville, Johnston Shearer, 

 James Stirton, M.D., F.L.S., C. Fred. Pollock, M.D., F.R.C.S.E., 



