there were several evening meetings, your Council deemed it advisable 

 not to hold a Conversazione of the Members and Associates of this 

 Society until the beginning of another Session, when the new Council 

 could better arrange for a successful scientific gathering. 



Since the issue of the Library Catalogue in the autumn of last year, 

 a number of valuable additions have been made to the Society's 

 Scientific Works. 



The following may be noted here : — 



U.S. Geological Survey of the 40th Parallel. Vol. VII. Odontornithes. By 

 Prof. O. C. Marsh. Presented by the U.S. Government, per Consul 

 M'Dougall. „ ^ ,. T, • , 



"The Classitication of Statistics," and other Scientific Papers. By Mr Patrick 

 Geddes, F.R.S.E. Presented by the Author. 



14 Vols, of British Association Reports, 1867-1880. \ Presented by 



13 Vols. Jardine's Naturalists' Library, with Plates. ) Mr A. C. Lamb. 



2 Vols. Balfour's " Comparative Embryology." Presented by Mr W. N. 

 Walker, F.G.S. 



Bell's "British Reptiles." Presented by Mr J. Martin White. 



Journal of Quekett Microscopical Club. Presented by the Club. 



" Flora of Arbroath and Neighbourhood." Presented by the Compiler.s. 



Official Report of the Challenger Expedition. Vol. III. 



Flower's " Osteology of the Mammalia." 



Huxley's " Anatomy of the Invertebrated Animals." 



Huxley's " Anatomy of the Vertebrated Animals." 



6 Vols. W. Saville Kent's " Manual of the Infusoria." 



Green's " Manual of the Protozoa." 



Gosse's " British Sea Anemones and Corals." 



Forbes' "British Star Fishes, Sea Urchins, and Sea Cucumbers." 



2 Vols. Bate and Westwood's " British Sessile-Eyed Crustacea." 



Murray's "Aptera." 



Newman's " British Butterflies and Moths." 



Heddle's " Geological Map of Sutherland." 



The books enumerated in the Catalogue which was issued, and those 

 mentioned here, will be sufficient to show that there is in the possession 

 of the Society a goodly store of valuable works for the use of the 

 Scientific student or specialist. 



In order to give greater facilities for their use, the Museum Com- 

 mittee of the Council have now arranged for the attendance of a boy in 

 the Society's Library at all hours of the day during which the Pree 

 Library is open. 



The following Periodicals have been regularly laid upon the Museum 



table throughout the year : — 



Weekly — Nature. 



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



Quarterly— The Scottish Naturalist. 



In the Museum Department some progress has been made, both in 

 the collecting and arranging of specimens. It may be mentioned that 

 the Society's valuable collection of birds of the Tay Valley now numbers 

 167 specimens, representative of 113 species. 



