ANNALS OF THE PERTHSHIEE SOCIETY OF 

 NATURAL SCIENCE.^ 



By Henry Coates, Esq., F.RS.E. 



PERTHSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM. 



The Society was founded on 28th February 1867, by fifteen gentle- 

 men desirous of promoting in Perth the practical study of natural 

 history, " by the exhibition and preservation of specimens, the read- 

 ing of communications, by lectures, excursions, and the formation of 

 a library and museum." This inaugural meeting was held in "a 

 back room in Charlotte Street," and was presided over by the late 



^ This sketch is condensed from an address delivered by the president, Mr. 

 Henry Coates, at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting, on 9th March 1905, and 

 printed in the Pi'oceedings, vol. iv. part ii., page Ivi. The statistics are brought 

 down to March 1906. 



