132 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
British Association.—The Society is again enrolled on the List 
of Corresponding Societies of the British Association. Professor 
F. O. Bower, D.Sc., was appointed delegate for the Annual 
Conference. 
Finance.—The Hon. Treasurer (Mr, John Renwick) submitted 
his Annual Statement of Accounts, duly audited. This statement 
showed a balance in the Society’s Ordinary Fund of £97 6s. 54d., 
and in the Life Members’ Fund of £141 15s. From the Ordinary 
Fund balance there falls to be deducted the cost of publishing 
Transactions till 31st August, 1896, and the cost of Seebohm’s 
British Birds’ Eggs. (See page 151.) 
The Reports were all unanimously approved of and adopted. 
Vacancies in the Council were then filled up by the election of 
the following gentlemen :—Mr. Robert Kidston, F.R.8.E., F.G.S., 
as President; Mr. Joseph Somerville as Vice-President ; Messrs. 
S. M. Wellwood and R. D. Wilkie as Hon. Secretaries ; Mr. John 
Renwick as Hon. Treasurer; Mr. James Mitchell as Hon. 
Librarian; Mr. Alex. Somerville, B.Sc., F.L.S., as Hon. Editor ; 
Messrs. Robert Brown, M.D., John Fleming, Geo, Russell, and 
the Rev. G. A. Frank Knight, M.A., as Members of Council. 
The Council consists, besides the foregoing, of the following 
gentlemen whose term of office has not expired—Messrs. Peter 
Ewing, F.L.8., and William Stewart, Vice-Presidents, John 
Cairns, Jun., J. Bruce Hunter, Richard M‘Kay, Johnston 
Shearer, Robert Dunlop, Robert M. Morton, John Paterson, and 
James Whitton. 
Messrs, James Jack and William Leighton were appointed 
Auditors, 
Messrs. William Adam, 31 Commerce Street ; Frank H. Agnew, 
43 Dixon Avenue; G. F. Scott Elliot, M.A. (Cambridge), B.Sc. 
(Edinburgh), F.L.S., F.R.G.S. ; Charles Hogg, 9 Wilson Street, 
Paisley ; Geo. W. Ord, 198 St. James’s Road; and Hugh Boyd 
Watt, 101 St. Vincent Street, were elected as Ondine Members. 
Messrs. Anderson Fergusson and Thomas Wilson were elected 
as Associates. 
The Hon. Librarian intimated that the relatives of the late 
President (Professor King) had presented to the Society his valu- 
able collection of scientific books, numbering about 150 volumes. 
The thanks of the Society were heartily accorded for the valuable 
gift. 

