liv PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 
The Council have joined with the Sandeman Public Library in 
the issue of a Quarterly Magazine, giving a record of the work of 
these two institutions. Two parts have already appeared. 
Your Council again regret to have to record the removal by 
death of some old and valued Members. A few months ago 
we lost Mr. John Campbell, Optician, who was elected in 1881, 
and who at one time was a very active Member of the Society; 
and just recently there has passed away Mr. Andrew Coates, a 
much older Member, elected in 1869. For a long time Mr. 
Coates was one of the most regular attenders at the Meetings. 
Elected to the Council in 1874, he served continuously till the last, 
first as Councillor, then as Vice-President, and, on the erection of 
the present building, as a Trustee, and ever took the most active 
interest in the Society’s work; and your Council feel they have lost 
one of their most generous, efficient, and trusted leaders. 
The Council desire to record their appreciation of the services 
rendered to the Society by Mr. John Stewart, who has acted as 
Treasurer for the last 16 years, and who is now retiring. 
The use of the Lecture Room has again been granted to various 
local Societies for Meetings in the evening. During the day it is 
being used for teaching purposes, your Council having readily agreed 
to a request made early in the summer by the School Board of Perth 
for its use during the erection of the new Central District School. 
During the year the Museum has been visited by 8000 people. 
REPORT OF TREASURER. 
(See Balance-Sheet , page Ixxi.) 
REPORT OF TREASURER OF MUSEUM FUND. 
(See Balance-Sheet , page Ixxii.) 
REPORT OF CURATOR. 
The additions to the Museum collections have been announced, 
and the more important donations have been exhibited, at the 
Ordinary Monthly Meetings. The most important donation was 
from the Trustees of the British Museum, and comprised over 70 
species from the Collections of the Challenger Expedition. A 
complete list, however, will be found at the end of the Society’s 
Proceedings for the year. 
Last autumn the Committee of Management of the Sandeman 
Public Library invited this Society to combine with them in 
publishing a Quarterly Report, in which notes on recent acquisitions 
by each of the Institutions might be brought more prominently to the 
notice of the public. In the two parts already published will be 
found the more important additions to the Perthshire Natural 
History Museum, with short notes on the chief points of interest 
which these exhibit. It is therefore unnecessary to say more about 
the donations, further than to thank the many kind donors for their 
gifts. 
