16th Feb. — The Grallatores ( Wadiwj Birds) and 

 Natatores(Sioimming Birds) of tlie 

 Estuwy of the Tay. The great 

 decrease in their numbers of late 

 years ; the causes ; with sugges- 

 tive remarks for its mitigation, By Col. H. M. Drummond Hay, 



Cor. Mem. Z.S. 

 2d Mar. —Crustaceans : their distribution in 



time, • • - - „ Wm. B. Irvine, Vice-President 



of the Society. 

 16th Mar. — Vaccination^ ■ ■ - >> James W. Miller, M.D., 



L.E.C.S.E. 

 30th Mar. — The Scenery of the Northern Counties 

 of Scotland considered in connec- 

 tion with their Geological Forma- 

 tion. Illustrated with Diagrams, ,, Professor M. Foster Heddle, 



M.D., F.R.S.E., St Andrews 

 University. 

 13th Apr. — Nerves: their origin and environment, „ George Leslie, Demonstrator in 



Natural History, University 

 of Edinburgh. 



Your Council have again pleasure in referring to the successful nature 

 of these Meetings, and consider that it is most creditable to the Society 

 that so many Members are -willing to bring forward the results of their 

 study and research with that elaborate care and illustration by Diagrams 

 and Experiments not unworthy of audiences even much larger than 

 those which from time to time assemble in the Society's Lecture HaU. 

 The paper read by Colonel Drummond Hay, in which he drew attention 

 to the wanton destruction and partial extermination of the Swimming 

 and Wading Birds of the Estuary of the Tay, was considered of sufficient 

 importance to this locality by the Members present at the Meeting that, 

 in order to lay the matter fully before the general public, it was resolved 

 to print and publish the paper. These Meetings were all held in the 

 Mathematical Class Eoom of the High School, and the Council desire 

 in this place to record their high sense of the kindness of the Directors 

 of that Institution in giving the Society the use of a Eoom so well 

 adapted in every respect for Lecturing purposes. 



II. Conversazione and Exhibition. 



On the evening of 9th February last, through the kindness of the 

 Free Library Board, your Council were enabled to receive Members, 

 Associates, and their Friends at a Conversazione and Exhibition in the 

 Albert Institute. The Meeting was of a most jDleasant description, the 

 attendance was very large, and the entire proceedings were most 



