REPORT 



Your Council have pleasure in submitting to you the Eighth Annual 

 Keport, 



The work of the Society during the past Session may be conveniently 

 described under the tliree following heads : — 



/. Fortnightly Meetings. 

 II. Conversazione and Exhibition. 

 III. Excursions. 



I. Fortnightly Meetings. 



Thirteen Fortnightly Meetings were held during the Session, and at 

 these fourteen papers or lectures were read or delivered, as under : — 



1880. 

 13th Oct.— The Perceptive Faculties, 



27th Oct. — Some Sound Phenomena. Illus- 

 trated by Experiments, 



10th Nov, — Stone Implements. Illustrated 

 with Numerous Specimens, - 



24th Nov, — Notes on the Highland Flora of 



Braemar and neighhourhood, 

 8th Dec, — Natural Jtubbish Heaps, 



22d Dec, — Mollusca, ... 



1881. 

 12th Jan. 



By Jameb Eokie, M.D., L.R.C.S.E., 

 Vice-President of the Society. 



„ Robert Low. 



„ Allan Mathewson, Cor. Mem. 

 S.A. Scot. 



„ James Brebner, M.A. 



„ Dr James Geikie, F.R.S., &c., of 



H.M. Geological Survey. 

 „ Eev. J. E. SOMEEVILLE, B.D. 



■Some recent additions to onr hnow-> 

 ledge of the Morphology of the 



Cell. Illustrated with Diagrams, „ Patrick Geddes, F.R.S.E., 



Demonstrator in Botany, Uni- 



26th Jan. — Note on recent excavations in the 

 Karnes and gravel terraces near 

 Newport. Illustrated with 

 Diagrams, 

 -Physical Conditions and Man, - 



Do. 



varsity of Edinburgh. 



„ James Durham, F.G.S. 

 „ David Co^ningham, M. 

 C.E. 



Inst. 



