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in order both to add weight to my proposal, and show how we may 
proceed to attain it. 
I have alluded to the existence throughout Scotland of many 
provincial societies whose objects are not inconsistent with the 
investigation which I think they may he invited to engage in. Sir 
Walter Elliot of Wolflee has lately been at pains to make out a 
list of all the Natural History Societies and Field Clubs existing 
in Great Britain and Ireland. 
I now give this list, in so far as it applies to Scotland, in the 
hope that, when our proceedings are published, this list may appear 
in it, so that if any societies or clubs are seen to have been omitted, 
the omission may be taken notice of and supplied. 
1. Berwickshire Naturalist’s Club. ( Secretary , Mr Geo. Tate, 
Postmaster, Alnwick.) 
2. Hawick Archaeological Society. (, Secretary , David Watson.) 
3. Tweedside Physical and Antiquarian Society. 
4. Dumfries and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian 
Society. 
5. Edinburgh Geological Society. (Secretary, Geo. A. Panton, 
Hope Terrace.) 
6. Edinburgh Naturalists’ Field Club. ( Secretary , Andrew 
Taylor, 5 St Andrew Square.) 
7. Glasgow Natural History Society. (. President , John Young, 
M.D.; Secretary , Robert Gray, 2 Lawrence Place, Dowan- 
hill.) 
8. Glasgow Geological Society. ( President , John Young, M.D.; 
Secretary , Dugald Bell, 136 Buchanan Street.) 
9. Alloa Society of Natural History and Archgeology. 
10. Largo Field Natural History Society. (Secretary, Charles 
Howie.) 
11. Perth Literary and Antiquarian Society. 
12. Perthshire Society of Natural History. (President, Dr 
Buchanan White; Secretary, A. T. Scott.) 
13. Montrose Natural History Society. (Secretary, Mr Robert 
Barclay.) 
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