Transactions. 5 
ELECTION OF OFFICE-BEARERS. 
The following were elected office-bearers and members of the 
committee for the ensuing session :—President, Richard Rimmer, 
F.L.8.; Vice-Presidents, James Barbour, Major Herbert G. 
Bowden, Thomas M‘Kie (advocate), and James G. Hamilton 
Starke, M.A. (advocate) ; Treasurer, John A. Moodie ; Secretary, 
Edward J. Chinnock, LL.D.; Curator of Herbarium, George F. 
Scott-Elliot, M.A.; Librarian, James Lennox; Curator of 
Museum, James Davidson ; Members of Council—Rev. William 
Andson, John Cowan, William Dickie, Thomas Laing, Robert 
M‘Glashan, Robert Murray, John Neilson, M.A.; George H. 
Robb, M.A., James S. Thomson, and James Watt. 
The Secretary read a report from Mr G. F. Scott-Elliot, B.Sc., 
on the progress made in the formation of the County Herbarium. 
This report was printed in the last volume of the Transactions. 
The Rev. Adam Andrew, of Chingleput, Madras, exhibited a 
fine collection of ancient stone implements and weapons from 
India. His address aroused a great deal of interest, and an 
animated discussion ensued. The thanks of the Society were 
awarded to him, on the motion of Mr Watt. 
7th November, 1890. 
Mr Tuomas M‘Kisz, V.P., in the Chair. 
New Member.—Bailie Alexander Scott, solicitor, Annan. 
Donations.—The Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Society of 
North Carolina for 1890; also, a Palmyra Palm-leaf Book was 
presented by the Rev. Adam Andrew, of Chingleput, who sup- 
plied the following description of it :—This is a Palmyra palm- 
leaf book, said to be 200 years old, and contains a Teliigti version 
of two parvas or books of one of the two great Indian Epics, 
called the Mahabarata. It is written in the Telfigi character, 
Teltigii being one of the Dravidian languages of South India, 
spoken by ten millions of people. The Mahabarata is probably 
the longest poem in the world. It contains about 220,000 lines, 
and is divided into 18 parvas or books. It was written at some 
_ period between the sixth and third centuries B.c. It deals 
