Your Council desire here to record their warmest thanks to the 

 gentlemen who so very ably contributed the papers and lectures 

 at the different Meetings, more particularly to those who, coming 

 from a distance, so favoured the Society. 



The attendance at the ordinary Meetings has on the whole been 

 very good, but necessarily limited by the size of our Museum, which 

 on two or three occasions was very inconveniently crowded. This, 

 however, your Council hope may be remedied ere another Session 

 opens, by the securing of a more commodious and somewhat more 

 convenient meeting-room. 



The work in the Museum continues to progress most satisfactorily, 

 under the active supervision of our earnest Librarian and Curator (Mr 

 Martin White). Several new cases have been added, and some of 

 our Natural History collections largely augmented. Our extensive 

 collection of local birds is now nearly complete, and the eggs 

 have very recently been classified and named by Mr E. N. Kerr. 

 A number of species of reptiles and mammals have been added, and 

 Dr Buchanan White, F.L.S., has very generously undertaken to 

 arrange for the Society a typical series of insects (excluding 

 the Butterflies and Moths, our collection of which is abeady 

 complete). 



The very laborious task of putting our Herbarium in order has been 

 finished by Mr Brebner during the past year, and our large Botanical 

 collection is now in a most efficient condition— every plant being placed 

 in its order and class in neat and easily accessible portfolios. 



Your Council have ah-eady minuted and conveyed to Mr Brebner 

 their cordial thanks for his good services, but they feel that he has 

 smgle-handedly accomplished that which entitles him to the gratitude 

 of every Naturalist in the Society. Mr Martin WTiite has very 

 kmdiy given, for the use of Members m the Museum, a valuable 

 microscope, and which it is to be hoped will be largely taken advantage 

 of by those for whom it is mtended. 



The plaster casts of the fine fossil Pteryrjofus Anglicus found some 

 years ago m the quarries at Carmyllie, have, in reply to requests, been 

 distributed and duly acknowledged, as follows :— 



(1.) To the^Museum of the Royal School of Mines, pro. Prof. Huxley-sent in 



(2 ) To the Zoological Museum at Marischal College, Aberdeen (1879) 

 3. T.. the Natural History Museum (British Museum), South Kensington. 

 (4.) To the Natural History Museum, Edinburgh. 

 (5.) To the Natural History and Antiquarian Museum, Montrose. 

 (6.) To the Natural History Museum of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science. 



