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membership and work of these Committees will be duly 

 intimated to the Society by circular. 



Proceedings and Ti-ansactions.— Two parte have been issued 

 during the year, viz.. Vol. II., Part 2, relating to the work of 

 Session 1887-88, and containing Index to Vol. II. ; and Vol. III., 

 Part 1, relating to the work of Session 1888-89. 



Vol. III., Part 2, is now in the hands of the printer. 



2)o?ir/^io?is.— Grateful acknowledgment is made of various 

 gifts received during the past year, including (1) " Compt-rendu 

 des Seances Congres Internationcd du Zoologie, Ire Session, 

 Paris, 1889," presented by the Organising Committee of the 

 Congress; (2) Guides to the Galleries of the British Museum 

 (Natural Histoid), 13 vols., presented by the Trustees of the 

 Museum; (3) 37 Specimens of Exotic Mosses and Hepatics 

 presented by Mr. Henry Boswell, Oxford, Corresponding 

 Member ; and (-t) an extensive Herbarium of British Flowering- 

 Plants, presented by an anonymous donor. 



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



The books in the Library are in good condition, but the 

 bookcases are becoming too small for the large number of 

 works which are being added from time to time. Last Session 

 the separate works received in exchange, gift, and purchase 

 reached about 400. The Library now contains upwards of 1200 

 bound volumes. During the Winter Session 87 volumes were 

 borrowed, while during the Summer Session the number 

 reached 80. Vol. II., Part 2, and Vol. III., Part 1, of the 

 Proceedings ami Transactions have been forwarded to 164 

 Societies, Institutions, etc. 



The Treasurer (Mr. John Renwick) submitted a Statement of 

 Accounts, showing the revenue and expenditure of the Society 

 during the year. 



The Reports were all unanimously approved and adopted 

 The Society then proceeded to the election of Office-Bearers 

 when Professor F. O. Bower, D.Sc, F.R.S.E., FLS was 

 elected President; Mr. William Stewart, a Vice-President- 

 Messrs. D. A. Boyd and James Steel, Secretaries; Mr. John 

 Renwick, Treasurer; Mr. James J. F. X. King FES 

 Librarian; and Messrs. Robert H. Read, C.E., M.B.o'u jpeter 

 Ewing, Johnston Shearer, Christopher Sherry, D. Corse Glen 

 C.E., F.G.S., and C. O. Sonntag, Members of Couucil-the 

 Council being as follows: President, Professor F. O Bower 

 D.Sc FJI.S.E., F.L.S. ; Vice-Presidents, A. Somerville, B.Sc] 

 F.L.&., Robert Turner, and William Stewart ; Secretaries, 

 DA. Boyd and James Steel; Treasurer, John Renwick- 

 Libmrian, James J. F. X. King, F.E.S. ; Members of Coimcil' 



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 M.B., CM., B.Sc, Thomas F. Gilmour, M.D LRCPE 

 Professor Thomas King, R. S. Wishart, M.A., James Barrie 



