PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. CXXXV11 
general Income and Expenditure Account of the Society is in a fairly 
satisfactory state, as we have just heard, yet the annual surplus (if 
any) from the members’ subscriptions can only go a very small way 
towards meeting the foresaid expenditure of ^180 under the Museum 
Accounts. 
We must not look to this annual deficit being met by donations. 
We have received great support in this way in the past, but should 
not ask for more. Three methods of meeting the deficit suggest 
themselves— 
(1) The Museum might cease to be a Museum open to all 
comers free of charge— i.e., we might make a charge for 
admission. This we should strive to avoid if at all 
possible, and the result would probably be small. 
(2) We might raise the amount of our annual subscriptions. 
This would probably defeat its own object by reducing 
the number of our members. 
(3) A Bazaar or Concert might help temporarily , but it seems 
to come to this—that if this Museum is to be a living, 
growing one—and it will be of little use, educationally 
or otherwise, if it is not kept so—we must look to the 
Town authorities arranging some scheme such as that 
put forward last year, so that there may be permanent 
provision for carrying on the Museum as a Public 
institution. 
REPORT OF CURATOR. 
I Perthshire or Local Museum. —I have reported to you at each 
of the monthly meetings the donations which have been received 
and presented to the Society from time to time during the past 
session. It is therefore unnecessary for me to bring that list before 
you to-night. It is a very extensive one, and one of which any 
Natural History Society might feel justly proud. The additions 
which have been made to the collections have filled a number of 
gaps, particularly in the bird collections. There are still, however, 
a number of specimens required before we can say that our collections 
of vertebrata are complete. I hope all who take an interest in any 
of the various departments will consider it a duty to do what they 
can to procure specimens for places where they see labels marked 
“ Wanted to complete ”—labels devised in order to indicate what 
specimens are still awanting to our collections. 
In the gallery numerous additions have been made. In the tree 
cases photographs and specimens of life history have been placed; 
in the insecta small representative cases of the Perthshire Dragon 
Flies, Coleoptera, and Hymenoptera have been arranged. All of 
these I hope to extend as time goes on, and as the various groups 
are more fully wrought out. 
In the Botanical Department Mr. Barclay reports as follows * 
“The collection of Perthshire Ferns and Flowering Plants has now 
