XXVI PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 
Eight excursions were held during the summer, and the Council 
begs to thank the various Proprietors whose consent was required 
for so readily granting the permission necessary. 
The Council has again granted the use of the Lecture-Room to 
various local associations; and it is very pleased to hear that the 
lectures in connection with the University Extension Scheme, which 
have been held in our Lecture-Room, have proved so successful. 
During the year the Museum has been visited by over 3000 
people, bringing up the total number since the opening to nearly 
22,000. 
REPORT OF TREASURER. 
(See Balance-Sheet on page xxxiii). 
REPORT OF LIBRARIAN. 
The number of volumes in the Library amounts now to over 550, 
of which about 25 have been added since last Report. Of these 
only the regular publications of the Ray Society and of the Inter¬ 
national Scientific Series have been purchased; the rest are presenta¬ 
tion works, and for these the Society have again to record their 
thanks to the Smithsonian Institution (Washington), to the Geological 
Survey of the United States, and to the other friends whose dona¬ 
tions have been acknowledged from time to time at the monthly 
meetings. 
Since the Annual Meeting of 1887, 43 members have taken 
advantage of the Library, the number of works taken out by each 
varying from 1 to 22. This number of readers is an increase on last 
season, and it is probable that the improvement is in part the result 
of the interest in recent educational schemes, which have owed their 
success largely to the facilities afforded them by our Society. 
REPORT OF EDITOR. 
During the past session the Society has published the first part of 
the Transactions and Proceeditigs , prepared on the plan indicated in 
the Editor’s Report last year. These, instead of being reprinted 
from the newspaper reports as formerly, have been specially printed 
for the Society, and in this way a much more suitable selection and 
arrangement of the matter has been possible. As already stated, 
it is intended that only papers relating to local Natural History, 
or containing the results of original research, shall be included in the 
Transactions , the selection resting with a special Publication Com¬ 
mittee. The Proceedings will contain an abstract report of all that is 
done at the meetings, and also of the excursions. 
The following Office-bearers were elected :•— 
President —F. Buchanan White, M.D., F.L.S., F.E.S. 
Vice-Presidents —R. Brown, C.E., R.N.; William Barclay; Captain 
D. M. Smythe, yr. of Methven; and William Ellison. 
Secretary —S. T. Ellison. 
