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Steele. Index Collection .—Various Zoological Specimens—from Mr. 
Alex. D. Rodger. Birds for Maceration—from Mr. P. D. Malloch. 
Library .—“Forest Birds: their Haunts and Habits”—from the 
President. 
John Purdie, Birnam, was elected an Ordinary Member. 
The following Annual Reports were read and adopted :— 
REPORT OF COUNCIL. 
Your Council have pleasure, in presenting their Twenty-Eighth 
Annual Report, to be in a position to record that the Society’s work 
continues to be carried on satisfactorily. 
There have been held during the year 6 meetings, at which 
8 papers were read, in addition to the usual Annual and Opening 
Addresses of the President, and other communications. 
The average attendance at the meetings has been 36; the greatest 
number being 45, on the 12th April, 1894, and the least 26, on the 
10th January, 1895. Twenty-five new members have been elected, 
making a total membership of 284, including 1 honorary and n cor¬ 
responding members and 6 associates. 
The Council regret that the membership keeps in a stationary 
condition, and they trust that the efforts the Society is making to 
furnish the city and county with a Museum of great scientific and 
economic value will induce more of the inhabitants to assist them to 
the extent, at all events, of becoming members. 
Seven excursions were held during the summer months, and were 
of a most enjoyable nature, and the Council record their thanks to 
the various gentlemen who granted permission for some of these. 
One of the excursions was to Glenfarg, jointly with the Scottish 
Natural History Society of Edinburgh, at which it was very pleasant 
to meet so many workers connected with a kindred Society, and your 
Council are glad to announce that another joint excursion has been 
arranged for this year on the Queen’s Birthday to the Edinburgh 
district, at which it is hoped a good number of members will turn 
out. 
The Museum still continues closed to the public, but as the new 
cases are now nearly completed and ready for the specimens it is 
expected that the opening will take place about October. Your 
Council have recently appointed a permanent professional Curator 
to carry out the work of arrangement, and they trust as many mem¬ 
bers as possible will come forward to assist in the collection of 
specimens, and help to carry out the wishes of the Council to make 
the Museum of as interesting and useful a character as it is possible 
for such an institution to be. 
Death has again greatly thinned our ranks, the past year having 
seen many removed who had long been members. Two of the 
original members died within a few weeks of each other. The first 
of these was Dr. F. Buchanan White, who had been the guide and 
mainstay of the Society since its commencement, and whose loss is 
the greatest blow the Society could experience, especially at the 
