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due both the reputation whicn the Society and its Museum have 
acquired and the popularity which the study of Natural Science 
has gained in our city and county. 
(2) That a copy of this resolution be sent to Mrs. White, and 
also to Dr. F. I. White, with the respectful condolence of the Society 
in their great bereavement. 
The following paper was read :— 
“The Distribution of Birds included in the Avi-Fauna of Perth¬ 
shire.” By Col. Campbell. (See Trans., Vol. II., p, 101.) 
10th January, 1895. 
Mr. Henry Coates, F.R.S.E., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. T. M. M‘Gregor, F.E.S., exhibited a Collection of South 
Australian Beetles. 
Letters were read from Dr. F. I. White and Mr. F. H. Buchanan 
White, thanking the Society for its expression of sympathy on the 
death of Dr. F. Buchanan White. 
F. Norie Miller, Comely Bank; H. Allison, Balhousie Castle; 
Geo. Lorimer, Tay Street; Wm. Watson, Mill Street; Miss Smart, 
Kinnoull; and Miss I. Smart, Kinnoull, were elected Ordinary 
Members. 
Mr. James Morison read the following Obituary Notice of Prof. 
Allen Harker, one of the original members of the Society :— 
At our last meeting we had to record the death of the late Dr. 
Buchanan White. At this meeting it seems right that mention 
should be made of the death of another of the original members of 
our Society—James Allen Harker, Professor of Natural History at 
Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. 
Dr. Buchanan White died on the third of last month. On that 
day, as for a few days previously, Professor Harker (aged only 47 
years) had to remain seated while delivering his lectures, and a day 
or two afterwards he could not leave his house. With cessation of 
work he seemed to break down at once, and died on the 19th of the 
same month. 
Prof. Harker started life in Perth as a clerk in the Perth Bank, 
now the Union Bank of Scotland, but after one or two changes he 
devoted himself entirely to science, made rapid progress, and 13 or 
14 years ago settled at Cirencester as Professor of Geology, Botany, 
and Zoology. His loss will be very much felt at the College, as it is 
very seldom that so thorough a grasp cf so many departments is 
possessed by one person. He always took a warm interest in the 
Perthshire Society of Natural Science, to which he contributed 
several papers. 
