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record, which ends in the spring of 1739, gives the household 

 expenses and the dishes served at table, while indirectly it 

 illustrates modes of social intercourse, and the food-supply 

 from the garden, the farm, and the forest. 



The Council have also accepted Dr. Wallace-James''s offer 

 to edit for the Society the Register of the Monastery of Inch- 

 ■colm from the transcript in the Advocates'* Library. 



According to rule, Mr. ^neas Mackay, Sir James Balfour 

 Paul, and the late Mr. John Scott would fall to retire from 

 the Council. It is proposed to re-elect Sir James Balfour Paul 

 and to appoint Professor Rankine and Sir Thomas Gibson 

 Carmichael to fill the other vacancies. 



The Council have accepted with much pleasure the services 

 of Mr. Francis Steuart as honorary assistant to our Secretary. 

 Mr. Steuart is well acquainted with the work of the Society, 

 and will help us materially to overtake its increasing busi- 

 ness. 



The accounts of the Honorary Treasurer show that there 

 was a balance, at 28th October 1902, of ^386, 13s. 2d. ; that 

 the income for the year 1902-1903 was i^528, 6s. 4d. The 

 •expenditure for the same year was ,£'326, 9s. 2d., leaving a 

 balance in favour of the Society, as at 24th October 1903, of 

 J>585, 7s. 4d. 



Lord Rosebery, in moving the adoption of the Report, said — 

 Well, ladies and gentlemen, my only cause for surprise is that the 

 list of apologies to-day is not interminable, because we meet under 

 <;limatic conditions which are more suited to the tryst of Macbeth's 

 Witches than to the meeting of the Scottish History Society. My 

 only comfort must be that the room is absolutely full, so that it 

 is just as well the weather was not finer. But we of the Scottish 

 History Society may warm ourselves with the contemplation of our 

 own prosperity, because, under the guidance of our secretary, Mr. 

 Law, to whom we owe everything, we certainly are enabled to pre- 

 sent a report to you which is of the most cheerful and encouraging 

 character. We have, in the first place, an overflowing member- 

 ship, limited, of course, by the regulations of the Society, but 



