XV111 PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 
The following Reports were read and adopted :— 
REPORT OF COUNCIL. 
In submitting their Twenty-seventh Annual Report your Council 
are again glad to announce an increasing interest in the work of the 
Society. There have been seven meetings held during the year, 
with an average attendance of 47, the greatest number at one meet¬ 
ing being 54, on 25th March, 1893, an d the least 22, on 8th 
February, 1894. Nine papers were read at these Meetings, in addi¬ 
tion to the Annual and Opening Addresses of the President. Six¬ 
teen new members have been admitted during the year, making up 
a total membership of 284, including 1 honorary and 12 correspond¬ 
ing members and 8 associates. The total thus brought out is under 
last year’s Report on account of the names of many in arrear with 
their subscriptions having been recently removed. During the sum¬ 
mer eight excursions were arranged, and the Council again tender 
their thanks to those gentlemen who granted the privilege of visiting 
their estates, as well as to those who took a good deal of trouble in 
making arrangements for carrying out several of these Excursions. 
The Museum has been closed during the past year owing to the 
work of extension now in progress. The erection of the building has 
taken longer than your Council anticipated, but that part of the work 
is now nearly finished, and they trust the fitting up of the cases and 
arranging of the specimens will proceed more rapidly, so that the 
whole can be thrown open to the public as soon as possible. In the 
meantime, however, your Council will be very glad to hear of any 
having donations to make to the Extension Fund, or good specimens 
to give to the Society’s collections. 
The Lecture-Room has, as formerly, been granted for meetings 
of various societies for educational purposes. 
REPORT OF TREASURER. 
(See Balance-Sheet , page xxxix). 
REPORT OF CURATOR. 
With regard to the several collections in the Museum since it was 
closed, your Curator has to state that all has been done during 
building operations that was mentioned in last year’s Report, namely, 
that every precaution would be taken to render the Cases as secure 
as possible against moth, dust, damp, &c., and, as far as can be ascer¬ 
tained at present, this has been effected with perfect success. 
Again, as to the new form of label for the Bird and Nest Depart¬ 
ment, stated to have been compiled and printed, these have now all 
been filled in in manuscript, with the names of the several donors, 
locality (with the geological division in which each specimen has been 
obtained), the date, sex, and stage of plumage, &c.—all wired and 
ready to be attached to the several specimens when placed in the 
new cases. Besides this, a Catalogue of the Birds, Nests, and Eggs 
found in Perthshire and the basin of the Tay, including all the infor¬ 
mation given in the labels, is in preparation, and will be finished, it 
