CXX PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 
Perth from the outside. Then coming to the possible objections that 
might be raised to this scheme from the side of the Society. Of 
course, he was quite aware that there might be strong sentimental 
objections on the part of many members to handing over what had 
cost the Society thirty years of labour, and so much time and thought 
as their Museum had done. But on the other hand that objection 
might be counterbalanced by the fact that the Society would always 
look with pride upon the fact that they founded the Museum, and the 
credit of having started it would be theirs. He was quite sure that 
the interest of the members in the Museum, the scientific interest, 
would remain as great even although it belonged to the town, as it 
did now when it belonged to the Society as a private body. With 
regard to the objections from the other side, and to the question as to 
whether the Town Council were likely to take over the Museum or 
not, he thought that was a matter with which they as a Society had 
no concern. All they had to do was to make the offer of the gift to 
them, and they might safely leave it to the good sense and enlighten¬ 
ment of the Council to decide for themselves. With these few 
remarks, he had much pleasure in moving 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, and 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 continue 
to pay a fair rent for the same. 
He might say that the terms of this resolution were very carefully 
considered by the Council of the Society, and that they thought the 
conditions referred to were the fairest they could draw up. Having 
moved this resolution, he had now very great pleasure in calling upon 
Sir Robert Pullar to second it. 
Sir Robert Pullar said that after the exhaustive statement to 
which they had listened from the President of the Society very little 
remained for him to do except to second the resolution which had 
been proposed. He did so with the very greatest pleasure. He 
had taken great interest in this Society from a very early period. 
He could scarcely believe that so many years had elapsed since then, 
and it made one feel rather old to think of the time when the 
Society used to meet in St. Ann’s Lane and elsewhere. It was 
then in a very small way, but the time had passed very rapidly, 
and it had grown with time. During those years there had also 
passed away—some very unexpectedly—many good friends of the 
Society, as in the case of the late Dr. Buchanan White, who, 
while the extension was in progress, was cut off in the prime 
of his life. They had also lost in those other gentlemen, Sir 
Thomas Moncreiffe and Colonel Drummond Hay and ethers, men 
who had taken great interest in the work of the Society and its 
Museum. But the work must go on, and they felt that it would be 
