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The outstanding work of Francis Buchanan White, the founder of the PSNS, was published post humously under the editorship of Professor James W H Traill , Aberdeen, who was an Orcadian born botanist and also edited the Scottish Naturalist Magazine founded by FB White. It includes contributions by other members including the Birnam Postie, Charles Macintosh. Charles was a self-taught amateur naturalist from Inver, near Dunkeld, discovered 13 varieties of fungi, and was friends with Beatrix Potter.

On 29 Nov 1895 the Museum extension was opened by Sir William Henry Fowler, Director of the British Museum and a comparative anatomist.

It housed the Perthshire Gallery, a collection of local animals, plants and rocks. The ground floor contained the vertebrate animals and in the gallery above were plants, insects, shells, rocks, minerals and fossils. At the time the Museum was declared one of the best in layout and design in Scotland.