1 PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 
present time, when our new arrangement has to be carried out. The 
other original member whose death we have to record was Professor 
Harker of Cirencester, who was a very active member in the early 
years of the Society’s existence. Your Council can only hope for 
the co-operation of all interested in science to carry on the work 
of the Society with as high an aim and as determined a purpose as 
did those whose loss we feel so greatly and deplore so much. 
The Council have during the past year had great pleasure in 
again granting the use of the Lecture-Room to various Societies. 
They are also very pleased to be able to record that they have been 
able to establish friendly co-operation with two local Societies— 
namely (first), the Literary and Antiquarian Society, with whom 
they have appointed a joint Committee for the purpose of promo¬ 
ting mutual action between the two Societies; and (second), the 
Students’ Union, with whom they have arranged a joint Lecture to 
be delivered shortly to the two Societies by Mr. J. G. Goodchild of 
Edinburgh. 
REPORT OF TREASURER. 
(See Balance-Sheet , page Ixviii.) 
curator’s REPORT. 
Since this time last year much has been accomplished, and your 
Hon. Curator has much to say, but will compress it in as few words 
as possible. The new Museum Hall, together with its furnishings, is 
now rapidly drawing to completion, and it is hoped that work may 
be commenced in the re-arrangement of the collections before the 
end of the month. I think before going further it is due to our 
President to mention that the several cases which have been placed 
in the Museum have been entirely designed and planned by him, with 
the able assistance of the contractor, Mr. Wm. M £ Quibban f These 
cases I consider to be quite perfect, and Mr. M‘Quibban deserves the 
greatest credit for the way in which they have been constructed, 
for carrying out all the instructions of the Museum Committee, 
and for taking the greatest trouble to find out the best methods 
of doing so. 
The first operation will be to clear out the old museum room, 
which will be entirely devoted to the Index Collection. With refer¬ 
ence to this (as members will be mostly aware), Mr. Alexander M. 
Rodger, from the University Museum at Dundee, has been appointed 
as paid Curator, and he, from his knowledge of Natural History and 
Science in general, will, I feel assured, ably carry out the complicated 
and difficult task of the arrangement of this department. During 
the short time he has been with us, much has been done in the way 
of preparation; the plan of arrangement has been sketched out; the 
cases of Index specimens necessary for illustration—ordered from the 
Continent by the late Dr. Buchanan White—have been unpacked, 
and the specimens overhauled and found very generally in good 
order; these have been put past, ready for arrangement as soon as 
the collections can be transferred to the new cases, which I now feel, 
