NOTE. 



This volume of the Club's History should not appear 

 without some brief note expressing a sense of the great loss 

 which the Club has so recently suffered by the untimely death 

 of Colonel David Milne Home. As Organising Secretary of 

 the Club for the last two years, and as its former President, 

 he had, by his high character and his clear intellect, won the 

 sincere attachment of its Members, and of his Colleagues in 

 the conduct of its work ; and at future Naturalists' excursions 

 the absence of his cheery energy and kindly disposition will, 

 by the wide circle who enjoyed his friendship, be felt keenly 

 as a personal loss. 



In the next volume, which will record the work of the 

 Club during this present year, 1901, space will he devoted to 

 a short Memoir of him. 



December igoi. 



