PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. XVII 
number of members on its roll. The annual meetings are held at 
the headquarters of each Society in rotation, the localities which 
have been already visited being Dundee, Kirkcaldy, and Aberdeen. 
At the Annual Meeting the programme usually extends over two 
days, and includes, necessarily, a meeting of the council, a business 
meeting (at which reports are received and papers read), and one or 
more short excursions; but, in addition, the Society of the place 
where the meeting is held usually gives a Conversazione or other 
entertainment to the members of the Union, and to this custom we 
purpose adhering when the Union meets here. We also propose 
having a longer excursion—extending over several days—after the 
business of the meeting is over. As the Union was founded in 
Perth, and as each member of this Society is a member of the Union, 
I have no doubt but that each and all will use their best endeavours 
to make the meeting a thorough success. 
13th April, 1887. 
F. Buchanan White, M.D., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 
James M‘Donald was elected an Ordinary Member. 
The following donations were intimated :— 
Museum—Perthshire Collection. —Perthshire Lepidoptera—from 
Mr. S. T. Ellison. I?idex Collectio?i. —Fossil from Fife Limestone— 
from Mr. W. Muir, Jeanfield. 
Library. —“Report of Geological Survey of Canada” for 1885— 
from the Department. “Report of the Smithsonian Institution,” 1884, 
Part II.—from the Institution. “ Schools of Forestry in Germany;” 
“School of Forest Engineers in Spain ;” “ Modern Forest Economy;” 
“French Forest Ordinance of 1669;” “Forests of England in Bye- 
gone Times;” “Forestry in Norway;” “Forests and Forestry of 
Finland;” “Forests and Forestry of Northern Russia;” “Forestry 
in the Ural Mountains;” “Forests and Forestry in Poland;” “Pine 
Plantations on the Sand Wastes of France; ” “ Reboisement of 
France;” “ Hydrology of South Africa;” “Water Supply of South 
Africa;” and “Forests and Moisture,” all by Rev. Dr. J. C. Brown, 
Haddington—from the Author. Photographic Groups, taken during 
Excursions of the Society—from Mr. H. Coates. 
Mr. A. H. Lumsden, Superintendent of Fisheries, exhibited and 
described some Salmon Fry, 50 days old, from Dupplin Hatchery. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. “Origin of the Interbedded and Intrusive Volcanic Rocks of 
Kinnoull Hill.” By H. Coates, F.R.P S. (See Trans. , Vol. I., 
p. 24). 
2. “ Remarks on Perthshire Willows.” By F. Buchanan White, 
M.D., F.L.S. (This paper, in an extended form, will appear in a 
future part of the Transactions'). 
