PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. CXXX111 
with an average attendance of 24—the largest being 38, on 12th 
March, 1891, and the least 12, on 10th December, 1891. At these 
meetings 5 papers were read, as well as the usual opening and presi¬ 
dential addresses by the President. Ten members have been elected 
during the year, making a total membership of 276, including 
1 honorary and 10 corresponding members and 8 associates, this 
being a slight decrease on last year. During the summer 8 excur¬ 
sions were held, which were more numerously attended than the 
excursions have been for one or two years previously. These were 
most pleasant days, spent amidst some of the splendid and varied 
scenery of our county; and the Council begs to thank the various 
proprietors who kindly granted facilities for seeing everything of 
interest upon the portions of their estates visited. The Museum 
maintains its attractiveness, having been visited by about 3000 
persons this last year. The Lecture-Room has again been granted 
free of charge to various local educational societies. The Council 
has once more to regret that death has greatly reduced the ranks of 
the Society. Amongst those whose loss it specially deplores, as 
having been long connected with the Society, and having each done 
much for its welfare, are Mr. C. T. C. Grant of Kilgraston, Dr. Thos. 
Miller, Mr. Magnus Jackson, and, more recently, Mr. John Dawson, 
one of the original members, and the one who presided at the 
inaugural meeting of the Society on 28th February, 1867. 
REPORT OF TREASURER. 
(See Balance-Sheet , page cxlv.) 
REPORT OF CURATOR. 
Though there is not much fresh matter to bring before you since 
the Report of last year, still your Curator is glad to be able to say 
that the Museum maintains its own in every respect, and that the 
several collections are in good order. A healthy interest continues 
to be taken by the public in all the departments, as may be instanced 
any day by the attentive manner in which here and there visitors are 
to be seen carefully studying the arrangement and classification, as 
well as the information contained on the labels—a state of things 
highly satisfactory. In the Bird department, of which I have more 
particular charge, I may mention that those specimens in skin, 
alluded to in last year’s Report as kindly presented by Lieut. Millais, 
of the Seaforth Highlanders, have now been mounted and placed in 
the cases, and, notwithstanding the cramping of room, have by a little 
management been satisfactorily arranged, preserving the order of clas¬ 
sification, though, as previously conjectured in last Report, some of 
the compartments may appear overcrowded—a circumstance which it 
is impossible to avoid on the introduction of fresh specimens, if the 
classification be strictly maintained as it ought to be. The presenta¬ 
tions in this class during the past year, though somewhat important, 
have not been numerous, and are as follows :—A Black-throated 
