CXXU PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NARURAL SCIENCE. 
required for initial expenses, and they would be equipped and 
arranged in such a way that there would be no large expenditure 
required, either for buildings or fittings, for a long time to come. 
The President asked if any member had an amendment to 
propose, but none being forthcoming, he said he might take it 
that this motion was carried unanimously. He might say that by 
their constitution it required to be carried by a majority of at least 
three-fourths, but it was extremely satisfactory that the matter had 
not gone to a vote, and that they had unanimously endorsed the 
the finding of their Council. 
5th November, 1896. 
Henry Coates, F.R.S.E., President, in the Chair. 
The following donations were intimated :— 
Museum — Perthshire Collection .—Reed Bunting—from Mr. Jas. 
Grant. Nests of Lapwing and Siskin—from Mr. Jas. Keay, Murthly. 
Female Pheasant assuming Male plumage—from Mr. Cox. Dipper 
and Siskin—from Mr. Atholl Macgregor, Eastwood. Robin, Blue 
Tit, and Siskin—from Mr. Chas. Kirk. Nest of Tree Creeper—from 
Mr. S. C. M‘Kim. Reed Bunting—from Mr. Jas. Folkharde, Blair¬ 
gowrie. Sparrowhawk—from Mr. Jas. Dow. Mosses and Lichens— 
from Mr. E. M. Holmes, London. Fungi—from Mr. Chas. MTntosh, 
Inver. Male Jay—from Mr. J. S. Grant, Ballinluig. Redshank— 
from Captain Drummond Hay, Seggieden. Turtle Dove—from Mr. 
Geo. M‘Pherson. Collection of Diptera, including Syrphus cinnulipes ) 
new to Britain—from Mr. Wm. Wylie. Kingfisher—from Mr. Jas. 
Keay. Honey-Buzzard—from Lord Kinnaird. Index Collectioji. — 
Beetles, from Ben Nevis,—from Mr. W. S. Bruce, Ben Nevis 
Observatory. Fifteen species of Beetles—from Mr. Thomas Midgley, 
Bolton Museum. Various Invertebrata—from Professor D’Arcy W. 
Thompson, University College, Dundee. British Willows, Fascicle I. 
—from Rev. E. F. Linton, M.A., Bournemouth, and Rev. W. R. 
Linton, M.A., Shirley Vicarage, Derby. Zoological specimens, from 
Millport,—from Dr. Robertson, Millport, and Mr. Alex. M. Rodger. 
Herbarium of the late Sergeant Sim—from Dr. Stirling. Skull of 
Polar Bear—from Mr. David Deuchars, Dundee. Skulls of Musk 
Ox—from Captain Robertson and Mr. W. R. Kinnes, Dundee. 
Sea Eagle, Frigate Bird, and Penguin—from Major Wardlaw Ramsay. 
Paper Nautilus—from Mr. Ben. Mullen, Bolton Museum. 
Library .—Botanical Work by Priscilla Wakefield—from Mr. Chas. 
M‘Intosh, Inver. 
Colin Macdonald, 28 St. John Street, was, on the recommend¬ 
ation of the Council, elected an Associate Member. 
