REPORT. 



Your Council have much pleasure in submitting to you the Ninth 

 Annual Report of this Society. 



It will be remembered that at last Annual Meeting Rule IV. was so 

 altered that the number of Members of Council was raised from eight 

 to twelve. This had become in some degree necessary, owing to the 

 great increase of late years in the membership of the Society, and the 

 consequent increase of work and responsibility. With the better 

 apportioning of this, your present Council believe they have been able 

 to carry on very satisfactorily the duties entrusted to their charge. 



In October last, as intimated by the Secretary at one of the Ordinary 

 Meetings, the Society suffered a loss in the resignation by Mr W. B. 

 Irvine of the office of Vice-President, on account of other pressing duties 

 and engagements, and the state of his health. Under the circumstances 

 your Council felt most reluctantly compelled to accept the resignation, 

 placing on record their high appreciation of the numerous services 

 rendered by Mr Irvine to the Society, and their great regret at losing 

 one of their number who had wrought so long and so successfully with 

 them as he had done. The Council afterwards appointed one of their 

 number, Mr W. N. Walker, F.G.S., as Vice-President, and elected Mr 

 David Cunningham, M. Inst., C.E., to the vacancy in the Council. 



In June last year the Excursion Committee made arrangements for 

 the following Scientific Excursions : — 



June 11. Sea Dredging, - - St Andrews Bay. 



„ 18. Genlpgical and Botanical, - Fowlis and Balruddery. 



July 9. Geological and Botanical, - Red Head. 



July 20. Sea Dredging, - - Bell Rock. 



August 13. .... Kinkel Braea. 



,, 31. Sea Dredging, - - Lunan Bay. 



The excursion to Kinkel Braes did not take place, owing to the 

 unfavourable state of the weather. Ail the others, however, passed off 

 very successfully, the dredging expeditions in particular being both 

 numerously attended and enjoyable, many marine specimens being at 

 the same time obtained for the Society's Museum. 



The work of the Winter Session was very auspiciously inaugurated by 

 an interesting and eloquent lecture given in the Kinnaird Hall by Dr 

 Andrew Wilson, F.R.S.E., on " Some Features of Evolution." Thirteen 



