PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. CXVI1 
WINTER SESSION, 1896-97. 
10th August, 1896. 
EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 
Henry Coates, F.R.S.E., President, in the Chair. 
The President gave notice that at an Extraordinary General 
Meeting to be held on 18th curt, he would propose the following 
Resolution, viz.—“ That the Perthshire Society of Natural Science 
hereby resolves to offer to the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town 
Council of the City of Perth, as a free gift to the citizens in all time 
coming, the whole of their Buildings in South Tay Street, Perth, 
together with the fittings, furnishings, scientific collections, and other 
contents of the same (with the exception of the contents of the 
Library and Lecture-Room), on condition that the Town Council 
agree to maintain the same in a thorough state of efficiency, under 
the charge of a thoroughly qualified scientific curator, and, on the 
further condition, that the Society shall have the sole and exclusive 
use of the said Lecture-Room and Library so long as they shall con¬ 
tinue to pay a fair rent for the same.” 
18th August, 1896. 
EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 
Henry Coates, F.R.S.E., President, in the Chair. 
The President, in rising to propose the motion ot which he had 
given notice at the previous meeting, said they must all have 
been familiar, as members of the Society, with the idea which had 
brought them together that night, because ever since the extension of 
the Museum was first talked of, he, personally, had made no attempt 
to conceal the fact that he thought ultimately this would have to be 
the destination of the Museum. They were all aware, of course, of the 
history of the Museum, how it had a very small beginning, and how 
it had gradually grown up in their hands. It began thirty years ago 
when the Society was first founded, and it began in a very small way 
indeed. The members, who used to meet then in a small room, had 
only one case, in which they had a few Perthshire specimens. Then 
when they moved into St. Ann’s Lane, they had two cases and a few 
shelves as their extended Museum, That went on for a few years, 
until at last they moved into this building, which was started in the 
first instance through the efforts of the late Sir Thomas Moncreiffe. 
Very soon the old Museum above the lecture room was found to 
be too small for their requirements, and Dr. Buchanan White, who 
was President of the Society, constantly urged on the Society the 
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