PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. XIX 
WINTER SESSION, 1887-88. 
10th November, 1887. 
F. Buchanan White, M.D., F.L.S., F.E.S., President, 
in the Chair. 
Dr. Buchanan White exhibited a number of flowering plants, and 
Mr. T. M. M‘Gregor a fine example of Sphinx convolvuli caught 
in Tay Street. 
The following donations were intimated:— 
Museum — Perthshire Collection. —Geological specimens — from 
Mr. J. Durham, F.G.S. Wasps’ nests—from Mr. David Dow, Bal- 
manno. Plecotus auritus —from Col. Drummond Hay. Rat with 
deformed teeth—from Sir James S. Richardson, Bart. Flycatcher 
—from Mr. Clark, Rannoch Lodge. Index Collection. —Dragon 
Flies—from Mr. C. A. Cormick, London. Plants and Insects from 
Singapore—from Mrs. Menzies, Craigie. Alligator and Cobra—from 
Mr. Reddie. 
Library.— Report of the Smithsonian Institution,” 1885, Part I. 
—from the Institution. “Report of the British Association,” 1886 
—from the Association. “ Report of the United States Geological 
Survey,” 1884-5—from the Department. “Catalogue of the Man¬ 
chester Exhibition,” 1887—from Mr. R. Pullar. “The Reign of 
Law” and “Primeval Man,” by the Duke of Argyle—from Dr. 
Andrew Wilson, Edinburgh. 
Mr. R. Pullar, F.R.S.E., gave, as Delegate of the Society, a report 
of the Meeting of the British Association at Manchester. 
[N.B.— As the Meetings of the East of Scotland Union of Naturalists’ Societies 
were held in Perth on 12th and 13th July, 1887, no Report of them was given on 
this occasion.] 
The President delivered the following Opening Address :— 
Gentlemen,— Continuing the practice of the past two years, 
I purpose inaugurating the winter work of the Society by giving a 
short resume of the results of the labours of the members during the 
summer. It will, of course, be within the option of my successor in 
the presidential chair next year whether the practice shall be con¬ 
tinued. In my opinion it would be for the advantage of the Society 
that it should. 
In March next the Society comes of age, as it will then complete 
the twenty-first year of its existence. Looking back along this vista 
of twenty-one years, the continued progression that has been made by 
the Society, from the day of its humble and unambitious origin 
in 1867, seems to me little less than wonderful; and, since it has 
been my privilege to have served the Society in one office or another 
from its commencement, I think I may claim, without any boasting, 
