PROCEEDINGS-PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. xlv 
F.E.S. Index Collection —Concretionary Nodules from the Boulder 
Clay—from Mr. Geo. Valentine. Specimens of Daubenton’s Bat— 
from Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, F.L.S., Edinburgh. 
The Crocodile presented to the Society by Sir Donald Currie, 
K.C.M.G., M.P., was exhibited to the meeting. Col. Campbell also 
exhibited Skulls of Crocodiles shot by himself. 
Miss Watson, Inchyra; Miss A. Watson, Inchyra; J. S. Grant, 
Ballinluig; J. S. Robertson, Pitlochry; J. Masterson, 28 Mill Street; 
Alex. Wright, South Street; Robert Gloag, St. Catherine’s Place; 
J. B. Deas, Glasgow Road; D. J. Wilson, Bank of Scotland; James 
Ramsay, Balhousie Castle; and T. W. Bedford, Pitcullen Crescent, 
were elected Ordinary Members. 
The President read the following Obituary Notice of the late 
Dr. F. Buchanan White :— 
Ladies and Gentlemen, —We are met to-night, as a Society, 
under the shadow of a great sorrow. Since we last met in this room, 
one who has been our leader, our counsellor, and our friend, for over 
a quarter of a century, has been taken from us. 
I shall not attempt to lay before you to-night any detailed bio¬ 
graphical notice of the late Dr. Buchanan White, but shall content 
myself with recalling to your minds, in a few words, what we 
owed to him as a fellow-worker in the field of scientific research, 
and in the management of the affairs of this Society. Those 
of us who have had the privilege of accompanying him in Natural 
History rambles throughout the county know well both what an 
accurate observer and what a genial companion he was. Nothing 
seemed to escape his notice, either in organic or inorganic nature. 
He was a specialist of the highest rank in certain branches of 
Natural Science, and yet he never allowed his specialism to inter¬ 
fere with his appreciation of nature as a whole. Not only had he the 
keen eye of the trained naturalist to detect the minutest distinction 
in plant or insect, but he had also, to a large extent, the eye of the 
artist and the feeling of the poet, to admire and reverence all that 
is beautiful of form or colour in nature. This combination of facul¬ 
ties is the more noteworthy as it is only too rare amongst the natural¬ 
ists of the present day. As a companion in the field, none could 
have been more willing to contribute of his store of knowledge 
than he was, and yet never for a moment did we feel that the infor¬ 
mation was being forced upon us, or that there was even a trace of 
ostentatious display of superior attainments. Truly the humility 
which comes of true greatness was his. He was endowed with a 
large sense of humour, which made his companionship particularly 
charming. Every now and then, in the midst of serious work, some 
trivial circumstance would strike him in a ludicrous aspect, and his 
merry laugh could not but infect those round about him. 
Regarding his scientific work, I shall not go into any details here, 
but in order to show the versatility of his genius I shall merely 
remind you that, besides being one of the leading authorities in the 
country on the Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, and on the Willows and 
