464 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
Associates.—One Associate has been added during the year. 
The number on the roll is 22. 
Obituary.—The obituary record for the year contains the 
names of Sir James Bain (who joined in 1862), Joseph Christie 
(1882—see pp. 300-1), Alex. Leitch (1885), James M‘Call (1887), 
Gavin Miller (1858), and an Honorary Member in the person of 
Mr. Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 
Meetings.—The usual meetings were held, the attendances 
being satisfactory. 
Excursions.—A number of excursions was carried out. The 
attendances were rather better than last year. 
British Association.—Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot, M.A., B.Sc., 
F.LS., F.R.G.S., was the Society’s delegate for the meeting held 
at Bristol. 
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 £75 4s. 53d., 
and in the Life Members’ Fund of £147. From the balance of 
£75 4s. 54d. fall to be deducted cost of publishing 7’ransactions for 
1897-98 and catalogues, and cost of new bookcases. (See page 478.) 
Library.—The Hon. Librarian (Mr. James Mitchell) reported 
that the number of volumes issued during the session exceeded 
the record of any previous year. The large additions to the 
Library having made a new catalogue a desideratum, the Rey. 
Mr. G. A. Frank Knight kindly undertook to compile one, and 
it has been completed and issued to the members. The most 
important addition to the Library during the year was an almost 
complete set of Reports of the Challenger Expedition. The 
report acknowledged the good offices of Sir John Murray, K.C.B., 
LL.D., etc., in this connection, and the debt the Society was 
under to the Rev. Mr. Knight for the labour involved in the 
preparation of the new catalogue. 
The Reports were all unanimously approved of and adopted. 
Transactions.—The Hon. Editor (Mr. John Paterson) reported 
that, in November, 1897, the Zransactions for Session 1896-7 
were issued, and that the material for the Session which had just 
closed was partly in the press. 
Rev. Mr. G. A. Frank Knight, M.A., Convener of the Museum 
and Research Committee, and one of the Delegates of the Society 

