VII. 
P E E F A C E. 
lx contributing its mite to the scientific literature of 
of the country, the Council of the Perthshire Society 
of Natural Science does not for a moment imagine 
that this, the first volume of its Proceedings, attains 
anything like perfection. The papers here reproduced 
have been arranged from the types of newspaper re- 
ports, and, however unpretending the volume is, and 
though it contains several typographical errors, which 
have unhappily crept in, the Council believes that 
the various papers published will be found—though 
in some instances of a popular nature—not to contain 
anything contrary to scientific truth. At the same 
time, the Council does not hold itself responsible for 
any of the statements brought forward by the authors 
of the papers. The objects the Society have in view 
are two—one to work out the Natural History of 
Perthshire, and the other to promote the study of 
Natural Science. Most of the papers will be 
found to have reference to the County or to Scotland ; 
it having been thought unnecessarj* to reproduce 
those of an educational character, the matter con¬ 
tained in which is to be found in the various stan¬ 
dard scientific works. 
