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small. As the outcome of various meetings, the 

 museum committee resolved on April 4th, 1878, to 

 take steps to raise funds to carry out the scheme of 

 building a museum, etc., in South Tay Street, and 

 they were encouraged in their efforts by the 

 promises of handsome donations from well-known 

 residents in Perth and others. In August of the 

 succeeding year (1879), the Society received a very 



appropriate memorial to their late President, would 

 be the raising of a fund for the carrying out of his 

 cherished idea. With this object in view, a large 

 and influential committee was appointed, a canvass 

 for subscriptions organised, plans prepared, and a 

 site secured. About this time, Dr. Jas. Geikie, 

 F.R.S., succeeded Sir Thomas Moncreiffe in the 

 presidency of the Society. The subscriptions 



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severe blow in the death of its large-hearted 

 President, Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, Bart. Had not 

 he, by reason of his untiring energy and perse- 

 verance, prepared the way for the successful carrying 

 forward of his favourite scheme, it is only too 

 probable that it would, at this time, have fallen 

 into abeyance. His enthusiastic earnestness, how- 

 ever, was destined not to be lost upon his fellow 

 workers. They justly deemed that the most 



promised up to the date of opening were exactly 

 £1,787, while the contracts for the erection of the 

 building, exclusive of incidental expenses, were 

 £1,720. 



So well, therefore, was the appeal for subscriptions 

 to the Moncreiffe Memorial Museum responded to, 

 and so heartily did the public sympathize with the 

 projected scheme, that on Saturday, October 1st, 

 1881, at 3 p.m., the Perthshire Natural History 



