lvi PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 
Number of visitors to Museum—March 9th, 1899, to March 8th,. 
1900—8,210. 
REPORT OF LIBRARIAN. 
The Librarian reports that during the past year 247 volumes have 
been added to the Library by gift, and 45 volumes by purchase. 
Many of these works are of a valuable nature, and many are of great 
interest to the general reader. The Library is now reaching an 
important point of efficiency both in its lending and reference depart¬ 
ments, and it is therefore to be hoped that still greater advantage will 
in the future be taken of it by the members. The number of readers 
during the year has been 53, and books borrowed 173. The 
increasing dimensions of the Library may be readily perceived from 
the extra shelving which it has been found necessary to erect. 
REPORT OF EDITOR. 
The First Part of Vol. III., New Series, of the Transactions and 
Proceedings of the Society has been published and issued to Members 
during the year. Copies of the Society’s Transactions and Proceedings 
have been sent to 21 Institutions (British and Foreign), and in 
exchange we have received many valuable additions to the Library. 
The following Office-Bearers were elected :— 
President —Henry Coates, F.R.S.E. 
Vice-Presidents —Dr. Andrew Thomson, F.R.S.E., F.C.S., F.I.C., 
James Morison, Robert Brown, F.E., R.N., Col. Campbell. 
Secretary —S. T. Ellison. 
Treasurer —Alfred Brown. 
Librarian —James Coates. 
Editor —William Barclay. 
Councillors —The Right Hon. the Earl of Mansfield, James Menzies, 
Miss M. Thomas, L.L.A., Miss Macnab, L.L.A. 
Curator —Alex. M. Rodger. 
The following paper was read :— 
“Books and Reading.” By John Minto, M.A., Sandeman Public 
Library. 
12th April, 1900. 
Henry Coates, F.R.S.E., President, in the Chair. 
A letter was read from Mrs. Coates thanking the Society for their 
expression of sympathy on the death of her husband, the late Mr. 
Andrew Coates of Pitcullen. 
Professor D’Arcy W. Thompson, C.B., of University College, 
Dundee, gave an interesting notice of some of the more notable 
