LIBRARIES, BRITISH. Edinburgh Public Library, George IV. Bridge. Scottish National Portrait Gallery Library. Edinburgh University Library. Aberdeen University Library. St Andrews University Library. The United Free Church College Library, Edinburgh. The Signet Library, Edinburgh. The Advocates Library, Edinburgh. The British Museum Library, London. The Bodleian Library, Oxford. The University Library, Cambridge. The Royal Library, Windsor. The Liverpool Free Library, Liverpool. The Athenæum Club Library, London. The Ordnance Survey Library, Southampton. Chetham's Library, Manchester. The Library of the Public Record Office, London. The Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London LIBRARIES, FOREIGN The University Library, Christiania, Norway. The Royal Library, Munich, Bavaria. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND. HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIXTH SESSION, 1905-1906. ANNIVERSARY MEETING, 30th November 1905. THE RIGHT HON. SIR HERBERT MAXWELL, BART., LL.D., M.P., President, in the Chair. Sir James Balfour Paul and George Neilson, LL.D., were appointed Scrutineers of the Ballot for the election of Office-Bearers and Councillors. The Ballot having been concluded, the Scrutineers found and declared the List of the Council for the ensuing year to be as follows: President. THE RIGHT HON. SIR HERBERT E. MAXWELL, BART., LL.D., M.P. VOL. XL. Vice-Presidents. Lieut.-Col. A. B. M'HARDY, C.B. The Right Hon. LORD BALCARRES. 1 Prof. A. H. SAYCE, M.A., LL.D., D.D. | J. MAITLAND THOMSON, LL.D. A Ballot having been taken, the following were duly elected Fellows: ROBERT PENRICE LEE BOOKER, Eton College, Windsor. KENNETH COCHRANE, Newfaan, Galashiels. ROBERT DE CARDONNEL FINDLAY of Easterhill, 14 Stafford Place, London. EDWARD BRUCE Low, M.A., B.L., S.S.C., 6 Gordon Terrace. JAMES ADAM NORRIE, Taybeach Cottage, Broughty Ferry. JOHN ROBERTS, C.M.G., Dunedin, New Zealand. W. G. AITCHISOn Robertson, M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P.E., 26 Minto Street. The meeting resolved to record their sense of the loss the Society had sustained in the deaths of the following Members deceased since last THOMAS STUART ANDERSON, Barns o' Woodside, Newburgh, Fife, 1865 WILLIAM ADAIR ATKINSON, of Knockfarrie, Pitlochry, 1886 DAVID CORSAR, The Elms, Arbroath,. 1901 GEORGE LILLIE CRAIK, 2 West Halkin Street, London, 1879 HENRY GRIFFITH, Clifton Spa, Bristol, 1889 JOHN ARCHIBALD PARK, Eastwood, Dunkeld, 1896 Lieut.-Col. GEORGE GLAS SANDEMAN, of Fonab, Pitlochry, 1894 ANDREW SEMPLE, M.D., Deputy Surgeon-General, 10 Forres Street, . 1881 1903 1896 JOHN HUNTER TAIT, Advocate, 43 Moray Place, Dr Christison, Secretary, read the following Report on the progress and work of the Society during the past year : The Roll of Membership.—In the Report of 1902-3 it was shown that the average annual addition to the Roll, necessary to keep up our strength to about 700, was 36. In the following year our losses through deaths, resignations, and lapses were no less than 47; and as our recruits only numbered 29, the total number of Fellows was reduced from 706 to 688. Fortunately, last year the conditions were reversed: 39 new members were elected, and as our losses amounted only to 21 (14 from deaths, 5 from resignations, and 2 from lapses), the number on the Roll again stands at 706. Publications.-The thirty-ninth volume of Proceedings, of which an advance copy lies on the table, contains 33 papers; they may be divided into two classes, the first dealing mainly with the description of finds, excavations, buildings, etc.; the second-more literary in treatmentwith historical, topographical, and similar subjects. No less than 29 of the papers belong to the first division, and they may be classed chronologically as Prehistoric (12); Protohistoric (9); Mediæval (5); Post-Reformation (3). Prehistoric subjects have always predominated in our volumes, chiefly because the flow of finds to the Museum and elsewhere is almost continuous from that department, whereas from the others it is uncertain and intermittent. In the Protohistoric period I include subjects belonging to the dawn of the written history of our country, when some feeble light was thrown on it by Roman authors and British and Irish chroniclers and annalists. The main strength of this department depends on excavations, chiefly those undertaken by the Society. The Medieval papers are descriptive of ancient buildings and architectural remains, but include the record of a find of coins. The Post-Reformation subjects treat of Kirkyard Monuments and objects found in buildings of the period. The literary or historical and topographical division contains only five papers. The workers in this department of our science are either relatively few, or do not often communicate their results to the Society. Possibly it is not generally known that in our Laws it is laid down that "the purpose of the Society shall be the promotion of |