PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY" OF NATURAL SCIENCE. XXV 
8th March, 1888. 
TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING. 
F. Buchanan White, M.D., F.L.S., F.E.S., President, in the Chain 
Miss E. G. Macnaughton, Miss E. S. Macnaughton, and D. M. 
Gibb were elected Ordinary Members. 
The following donations were intimated :— 
Museum.—Perthshire Collectio?i .—Specimen of Oxytropis campes- 
tris , found at Loch Loch on 14th July, 1887—from the Rev. J. 
Fergusson, Fern. 
Library .—Diagram Map of the World, showing the Zoological 
Provinces—from Mr. James Coates. Various Pamphlets and Reports 
—from Dr. R. H. Mill, Edinburgh. 
The following Annual Reports were read and adopted:— 
REPORT OF COUNCIL. 
The Council, in presenting this their Twenty-first Annual Report, 
congratulates the members on the attainment of the majority of the 
Society. Much has been accomplished in the past, and we are glad 
to think that the work of the Society gives signs of continued growth 
and vitality. 
The papers read during the year have been of a high order, and 
the attendance at the meetings is again somewhat improved, showing, 
in fact, the highest average yet attained. The only matter your 
Council has to regret is that the membership does not show as 
large an increase as we could desire. One feature, and not the 
least important, of the work of a society such as this is the diffusion, 
especially amongst the younger portion of the community, of an 
interest in the objects of nature, which, while affording a pleasant 
and profitable exercise for leisure moments, is also a safeguard from 
many of the evils to which spare time too often opens the way. 
Your Council is therefore sorry to see amongst those who have 
during the past few years resigned their connection with the Society 
the names of many who ought to be interested in questions of this 
nature, and upon whose support your Council thought they could 
have relied. It is therefore to be hoped that the members will 
do their utmost to recruit our ranks, from which too many have 
recently fallen away. 
In July the Annual Meetings of the East of Scotland Union 
of Naturalists’ Societies were held in Perth, and proved in every way 
a great success. 
During the past year 7 monthly meetings have been held and 12 
papers read. Average attendance, 41—the greatest number being 
57, on 9th February, 1888; and the least 22, on 8th December, 
1887. 18 new members have been admitted, showing a net gain of 5 
—the total membership being 309, including 2 honorary and 9 cor¬ 
responding members and 9 associates. 
