Reports from Local Branches. 



The Reports received from the Aberdeen and Northern 

 Branches were afterwards read by the Secretary. (See Appen- 

 dices D, E, and F.) 



Chairman's Remarks. 



The Chairman said he had great pleasure indeed in moving 

 the adoption of the various Reports, from which it was evident 

 that the Society was in a prosperous condition. They had 

 increased their Membership by 54, and their income had 

 also been increased by about ;£s°- ^^ thought that was a 

 very satisfactory state of affairs ; he hoped that this progress 

 would be maintained, and that the Society would become a 

 still more powerful body than it was at present. The Reports 

 were adopted. 



The President further moved that the Resolution embodied 

 in the Council's Report should be sent in the usual way to the 

 Ministers mentioned above, and this was unanimously agreed to. 



Office-Bearers. 



On the motion of Mr Munro Ferguson, Sir Kenneth 

 Mackenzie was re-elected President for another year. 



Sir John Stirling-Maxwell was re-elected a Vice-President ; 

 and Mr John Methven, Nurseryman, Edinburgh, and Mr 

 James Johnstone, AUoway Cottage, Ayr, were elected new 

 Vice-Presidents. 



Dr BoRTHWicK, Mr Leven, and Mr Annand were re-elected 

 to the Council, and the new Councillors elected were : — Lord 

 Mansfield, Mr Sydney J. Gammell of Drumtochty, Mr Broom, 

 Wood Merchant, Bathgate, and Mr J. W. M'Hattie. The 

 following were re-elected : — Mr Munro Ferguson, Honorary 

 Secretary; Mr R. Galloway, S.S.C, Secretary and Treasurer; 

 Colonel Bailey, Honorary Editor; and Mr John T. Watson, 

 Auditor. Mr Andrew Watt, M.A., F.R.S.E., Secretary of 

 the Scottish Meteorological Society, was elected Honorary 

 Consulting Meteorologist in succession to Mr R. C. Mossman, 

 resigned ; and the other Honorary Consulting Officials and 



