PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 
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Young:—“That this Meeting desires to record its sense of the loss 
which the Society has sustained in the death of Mr. John Young, C.E., 
who was one of its oldest and most devoted members, and who 
acted as Honorary Secretary for eleven years; and to express its 
sympathy with the family of the deceased.” 
The following papers were read :— 
1. “The Boys’ Brigade Field Club at Ballinluig.” By T. M. 
M‘Gregor, F.E.S. (See 'Trans ., Vol. IF, Part IIP, p. 133). 
2. “Heredity: Some Fresh Evidence.” By George Valentine. 
16th January, 1896. 
Henry Coates, F.R.S.E., President, in the Chair. 
The following donations were intimated :— 
Museum—Index Collection— Zoological Specimens from the U. P. 
Mission Station, Old Calabar—from Rev. P. A. Gordon Clark. Great 
Horned or Virginian Owl—from Major Chalmers, Gowanlea, Blair¬ 
gowrie. Arctic Plants—from Mr. Thomas Howie, Ivy Bank, New 
Scone. 
Library .—Sixteen Vols. of Botanical Works—from Mr. Thomas 
Howie, Ivy Bank, New Scone. Kerner’s “Natural History of 
Plants ”—from Sir Robert Pullar. 
James Dewar, St. Leonard’s Bank; H. M. Drummond Hay, 
Seggieden; Hamilton Fleming, Hamilton House; John Bett, 
Dalguise House; Col. Frank Stewart Sandeman, Stanley; Rev. Dr. 
Bannerman, St. Leonard’s F.C. Manse; Mrs. Bannerman; Thomas 
Frew, King James’ Place; George Alexander, High Street; David 
Blair, Barrack Street; George Martin, Glasgow Road; Mrs. Martin; 
Robert Halley, Balhousie; Miss Deas, St. Leonard’s Bank; William 
Morrison, 15 Gowrie Street; Alfred Tuke, Station Hotel; Gilbert 
Malloch, 2 Albert Place; Samuel Forbes, Croft House, Bridgend; 
D. N. Milln, County Place; Samuel Chapman, King James’ Place; 
Mrs. Chapman; A. Forrester, George Street; Captain Black, Bal- 
gowan, and Mrs. Black, were elected Ordinary Members. 
A letter was read from Mr. G. P. K. Young, thanking the Society 
for their expression of sympathy on the death of his father, the late 
Mr. John Young, C.E. 
The President then read the following Obituary Notice of the 
late Col. H. M. Drummond Hay of Seggieden :— 
Gentlemen,— In the history of all human associations, as in each 
of our individual lives, death comes from time to time to remind us 
that nothing here is enduring. In the annals of our Society this 
truth has been impressed upon us with painful frequency during the 
