to avoid the great expenditure, and at the same time to increase the 

 popularity of the Lectures, by an application for the benefits of the 

 Gilchrist Educational Trust. This recommendation your present Council 

 gladly adopted and followed out, making a joint application to the 

 Trustees, along with Lecture Committees or Natural History Societies 

 in Aberdeen, Brechin, Kirkcaldy, and Perth, The Gilchrist Trustees, 

 however, found themselves precluded by the state of their finances from 

 making any grants for Lectures during last session ; and your Council, 

 under these circumstances, thought it inadvisable to proceed with any 

 Public Lectures during the year. But they hope that the new Coimcil 

 may see fit, at the proper time, to renew the application to the Trustees, 

 in order to secure for Dundee, if at aU possible, the benefits of Dr 

 Gilchrist's legacy. 



During the year the following Works have been added to the 

 Society's Library : — 



Siluria. By Sir R. I. Murchison, F.R.S. 



The Great Ice Age. By Dr James Geikie, F.R.S. 



Prehistoric Europe. ,, ,, ,, 



British Mollusca. 5 vols. By Dr Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S. 



British Zoophytes. 2 vols. By Hincks. 



Journal of the Mineralogical Society. 3 vols. 



Report on the Scientific Results of the Challenger Expedition. 2 vols. 



The Invertebrate Fauna of the Firth of Forth. By Mr George Leslie and Dr 



Herdman. Presented by the Authors. 

 Papers on Various Subjects. By Mr Patrick Geddes, F.R.S.E. Presented 



by the Author. 

 W. & A. K. Johnston's Diagram of Invertebrata. Presented by Mr David 



Cunningham, C.E. 

 Mineralogical Chart of the Shetland Isles. Presented by Professor Heddle. 



Your Coimcil have to report that the New Catalogue is in the printer's 

 hands, and will be issued shortly. In order to give Members greater 

 facilities in the use of the books, your Council would recommend that 

 at least one Member of Council should be in attendance in the Society's 

 Eoom every Monday evening during six months of the Session to issue 

 books. 



The following periodicals have been regularly laid upon the Library 



Table as issued : — 



Weekly — Nature. 



Monthly— Science Gossip, the Geological Magazine, and the Journal of Botany. 



Quarterly — The Scottish Naturalist. 



In order to secure the greater comfort of Members visiting the Room, 

 your Council have during the last year made several important improve- 

 ments, which they hope may answer that purpose. 



