PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. lxv 
9th January, 1890. 
A Conversazione was held, conjointly with the Perth University 
Education Society, in the Society’s Rooms and the Working 
Boys’ and Girls’ Hall. 
Lord Provost Whittet in the Chair. 
A Lecture was given by Dr. R. H. Mill, F.R.S.E., on “Rivers 
of the Ocean,” illustrated by Models and Diagrams; and another by 
Professor G. Baldwin Brown, on “ The Building of the Great Cathe¬ 
drals,” illustrated by Lime-Light Views. 
A large number of Photographs, &c., under the charge of the 
Photographic Section, were exhibited in the Lecture-Room and 
Library. 
13th February, 1890. 
F. Buchanan White, M.D., F.L.S., F.E.S., President, 
in the Chair. 
The following donations were intimated :— 
Museum—Perthshire Collection. —Pair of Wood Pigeons—from 
Mr. Davidson, Kinfauns. Fieldfare—from Mr. J. S. Cruickshank. 
Long-tailed Duck—from Mr. Taylor, Daleally. I?idex Collection. 
—Fossil Shark’s Tooth ( Carcharoden megalodon , Agassiz)—from 
Mr. Everett Gray, London. 
Miss M. S. Morison, Hasland, Dr. R. Stirling, Mr. J. B. Dobbie, 
and Mr. A. King were elected Ordinary Members. 
The following papers were read 
1. “ Pre-Historic Man—The animals which furnished his food, 
and the minerals and metals which furnished his tools, as seen in 
the Museum of Northern Antiquities in Copenhagen.” By the 
Rev. A. Milroy, D.D. 
2. “A Geological Sketch of East Fife.” By R. Dow. (See 
Trans., Vol. I., p. 139. 
14th March, 1890. 
TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING. 
F. Buchanan White, M.D., F.L.S., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 
The following donation was intimated :— 
Museum—Perthshire Collection. —Giant Puff-Ball (Ly coper don 
giganteum) —from Lord Stormont. 
