xxiv ANNALS OF PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 



During the same period there have been five occupants of the 

 presidential chair, whose terras of office were as follows : — 



1. Dr. F. Buchanan White, 1868 to 1872 and 1884 



to 1892, . . . . .13 years. 



2. Col. H. M. Druniraond Hay, 1872 to 1874, and 



1882 to 1884,1 ^ ^ , , . 4 „ 



3. Sir Tliomas Moncreiffe, Bart., 1874 to 1880,^ . 6 „ 



4. Dr. James Geikie, 1880 to 1882, . . . 2 „ 



5. Henry Coates, 1892 to 1906, . . . 14 „ 



The monthly meetings during the winter sessions have numbered 

 altogether 269, being an average of 7 each winter. At these meet- 

 ings 387 papers have been read, besides shorter communications, 

 being an average of 10 papers each session. This total includes 59 

 presidential addresses, delivered at each annual meeting, and also, in 

 recent years, at the opening meeting of each session. Of these 

 papers, 190, dealing with the natural history of Perthshire and the 

 Basin of the Tay, have been published in the Society's Transactions 

 and Proceedings. The subjects dealt with were as follows : — 



Mammals, . . .3 papers. 



Birds, . . . . 31 „ 



Reptiles and Amphibians, . 2 „ 



^ Col. Drummond Hay left no notes or MSS. of any importance beyond the 

 catalogues of the vertebrates he had prepared for the museum. These have been 

 (April 1896) handed over to the Society for preservation, and a note-book and 

 various short MS. notes along with these ; but, as I am informed by Mr. Henry 

 Coates, "these are of a very fragmentary character, and not, I fear, of any real 

 value " (H. C. in lit., 16th April 1896).— J. A. H.-B. 



There is an appreciative memorial notice by Dr. F. Buchanan White in the 

 Scottish Naturalist for 1879-80, p. 145, accompanied by an excellent likeness, which 

 I have the pleasure of reproducing. There is another portrait (1890) and excel- 

 lent memoir, and very full list of Dr. F. Buchanan White's numerous literary 

 contributions, by Professor Trail in the Annals Scot. Nat. Hist, for 1895, April 

 number, pp. 74-91. Sir Thomas MoncreiflFe was born 9th January 1822; died 16th 

 August 1879, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. He was professedly more of an 

 entomologist than an ornithologist, but with the true instincts of a field-naturalist 

 he observed also accurately in other departments. He was president of the Crypto- 

 gamic Society of Scotland in 1875, and president of the Perthshire Society of 

 Natural Science, and an active member. He was also " cairn-master " of the Perth- 

 shire Mountain Club— an oflFshoot of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science. 

 He is ever held in loving remembrance as one of the first promoters of the present 

 museum.— J. A. H.-B. 



