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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 465 
to the preliminary meeting called by the Lord Provost of Glasgow 
to consider the organisation of the scientific work in connection 
with the visit of the British Association for the Advancement of 
Science to Glasgow in 1901, reported on the proceedings of that 
meeting, and gave an account of what has since been done in the 
way of advancing the work. At the public meeting a Committee 
was appointed to “make the necessary preliminary arrangements, 
especially in connection with the compilation of handbooks relat- 
ing to the local fauna and flora, the geological phenomena, the 
archeological remains, the leading industries of the West of Scot- 
land.” The Committee, it was agreed, was to consist of the Lord 
Provost and two representatives from each of the learned and 
scientific institutions which had signed the memorial, asking 
the Lord Provost to convene a public meeting, with the addi- 
tion of representatives from the Glasgow Photographic Associa- 
tions, and, further, a number of other gentlemen representing 
Corporations and Trusts, etc., in the city. This Committee was 
divided into three Sub-Committees, each instructed to prepare a 
handbook, and the Natural History Sub-Committee was again sub- 
divided into sections to deal with Botany, Geology, and Zoology 
respectively. 
Vacancies in the Council were filled up as follows :—Revy. 
G. A. Frank Knight, M.A., as Vice-President; Messrs. Ander- 
son Fergusson, Richard M‘Kay, Geo. W. Ord, and Professor 
George Bell Todd, M.B., C.M., as Members of Council for three 
years. In addition to these newly-elected members, the Council 
consists of the following :—President, Robert Kidston, F.R.S.E., 
F.G.S. ; Vice-Presidents, Messrs. Joseph Sommerville and Alex. 
Somerville, B.Sc., F.L.S.; Hon. Secretaries, Messrs. 8. M. Well- 
wood and R. D. Wilkie; Hon. Treasurer, John Renwick ; Hon. 
Librarian, James Mitchell; Hon. Editor of Transactions, John 
Paterson; and Ordinary Members of Council, Messrs. Robert 
Brown, M.D.; John Fleming, George Russell, G. F. Scott Elliot, 
M.A., B.Sc., F.LS., F.R.G.S.; Charles Hogg, David Pearson, and 
Hugh Boyd Watt. 
Messrs. James Jack and William Leighton were re-appointed 
Auditors. 
Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot, M.A., B.Sc. ete., read his Report as 
Delegate to the last Meeting of the British Association, 
