lxvi PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 
The following Reports were read and adopted :— 
REPORT OF COUNCIL. 
In presenting the Twenty-third Annual Report, your Council is 
glad to be able to record a continued interest in the meetings of the 
Society. During the year 6 meetings have been held, with an aver¬ 
age attendance of 29—the greatest number being 35, on 13th 
February, 1890, and the least 20, on 14th November, 1889. At 
these meetings 11 papers were read. Thirty-five new members have 
been admitted during the year, making a present membership of 
314, including 2 honorary members, 8 corresponding members, and 
9 associates. 
During the late summer there were 8 excursions, but the Council 
regrets that the excursions are not taken advantage of by the mem¬ 
bers to the same extent as formerly, and trusts to see some improve¬ 
ment during the coming summer. Your Council takes this oppor¬ 
tunity of again thanking the various proprietors and tenants who 
granted liberty for these excursions to be carried out. 
A photographic section has been formed during the year, and it 
is hoped will be successful and prove useful. It is your Council’s 
desire that the Society may be large enough to embrace all kinds of 
scientific work, and that their building may be a point where all such 
operations may centre. 
The use of the Lecture-Room has again been granted to various 
local Educational organisations. 
During the past year the Museum has been visited by over 2,600 
persons, bringing up the total to over 26,000. The various valuable 
proofs of appreciation of its arrangements and utility which have 
recently been received, and the continual addition of specimens, 
which cannot at present be exhibited, lead your Council to hope 
that the day is not now r far distant when additional accommodation 
may be found. 
REPORT OF TREASURER. 
(See Balance-Sheet , page Ixxxv). 
REPORT OF CURATOR. 
As Curator, I have to report that the Museum is in general good 
order, and that the interest taken in it by the public is still well 
maintained, as shown by the Visitors’ Book. 
In the Geological department, the representation of the Minerals 
and Rocks of the Perthshire collection (Centre Case II.) has lately 
been re-arranged most admirably by Messrs. Henry Coates and 
P. Macnair, according to classification. 
In the Zoological department, the Nests and Eggs, which have 
of late been much increased, have also been re-arranged; but, though 
it was not possible to do so systematically, owing to the very small 
space available, they have for the present been thrown, as much as 
can be done, into groups of families. Even this could not be carried 
out properly for want of room, which has necessitated placing, or 
rather cramming, a great many of the smaller nests, pro tem ., into 
