PROCEEDINGS-PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE, lxxxi 
from being dedicated to Baal, they were assigned to some of the 
saints; and, finally, that he acquired learning we gather from the 
names which are not truly indigenous, but alterations from scientific 
or other alien names. Thus, if we had no other source of knowing 
what kind of a man the ancient Celt was, and how he lived, a study 
of the names of the plants would give us a very fair idea. 
ioth April, 1890. 
F. Buchanan White, M.D., F.L.S., F.E.S., President, 
in the Chair. 
The following donations were intimated :—- 
Museum—Perthshire Collection. —Redwing—from Mr. J. Young. 
Index Collection. —Frog, Beetles, &c., from Antigua—from Mr. Alex¬ 
ander Lamond, St. John’s, Antigua. Shells from the Andaman 
Islands—from Mrs. Douglas Price, Charlotte Street, Perth. 
Library. —“ Home of a Naturalist ”—from the Rev. B. Edmonston, 
Kincardine Manse. 
' The following papers were read :— 
1. “The Measurement of the Earth.” By R. Brown, F.E., R.N. 
2. “On the Arrangement of the Geological Collections in the 
Museum.” 
(3) “The Index Collection of Rock Specimens.” By H. Coates. (See 
Trans., Vol. I., p. 143). 
(4) The Index Collection of Minerals.” By P. Macnair. (See Trans., 
Vol. I., p. 145). 
3. “Some New Perthshire Localities for Rare Mosses.” By R. H. 
Meldrum. (See Trans., Vol. I., p. 147). 
8th May, 1890. 
F. Buchanan White, M.D., F.L.S., F.E.S., President, 
in the Chair. 
The following donations were intimated :— 
Museum—Perthshire Collection .—Nest and Eggs of Shoveller— 
from Sir J. E. Millais, Bart. 
Library .—Catalogues of British Hemiptera and British Hymen- 
optera (two copies of each)—from Mr. T. M. M‘Gregor. 
Mr. T. M. M‘Gregor exhibited a piece, of bark on which was a 
colony of small green beetles. 
