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The accounts of the Hon. Treasurer, of which an abstract is
appended, show that the balance in the Society's favour on
12th November 1914 was £116, Is. 2d., the income for 1914-
1915 504, 9s. 5d., the expenditure i J
S47, 15s. Sd., 1 and the
credit balance on 13th November 1915 £31%, 14s. lid.
The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the Report, said that
in some respects it was more pleasing than any presented for a
good many years. The Society's publications had fallen into arrear,
and a diminution of the membership had followed ; now those
arrears had been almost made up. When they had been completely
wiped out, and those excellent volumes for which members
had been kept waiting were put into their hands (as most of
them had already been), it might confidently be anticipated that
applications for membership would speedily and steadily increase.
Five volumes had been published since last Annual Meeting, and
there was not one of them which did not shed some ray of light
on some corner of the history of Scotland in the sixteenth, seven-
teenth, or eighteenth centuries, so as to assist the imagination of
the student to realize the social life of those periods in a way that
it would be quite impossible for any general history, however able,
to do. The chairman went on to point out the special value and
interest of each of the five volumes, and to indicate the importance
of the work which still lay before the Society.
Mr. Kenneth Sanderson, W.S., seconded the adoption of the
Report.
Mr. James Learmont complained that Members had had no
opportunity of seeing the Report before the Meeting, and referred
to the practice of other Societies, whose Reports were circulated
along with the notice of Meeting. Other Members having ex-
pressed their concurrence with Mr. Learmont's view, the Secretary
undertook that in future years the Report should if possible be in
Members' hands before the Meeting as desired.
Dr. J. A. Trail, in moving a vote of thanks to the Chairman
for presiding, stated that he had discovered an interesting MS.
history of Orkney by the Rev. George Low, minister of Birsay and
Harray. Mr. Low was a wonderful man in his day, almost a
1 This sum includes payments made during the past year on account of
thirteen books, seven of which have not yet been issued.