[1] Now based at the A. K. Bell Library in Perth, Scotland, the society was founded by a group of males, but by the end of the 19th century, around a quarter of its members were female.

[1] In 1935, the society donated paintings and natural-history collections to Perth Museum and Art Gallery to display in its new extension, which was opened by the Duke and Duchess of York,[2] the future King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.

The society undertook an excavation at Pitmiddle village (whose history dates to the 12th century) and Elcho Nunnery, and published its report in 1988.

[5] The society published The Flora of Perthshire, by Francis Buchanan White,[6] in 1898, using records provided by members, including Macintosh.

[7] White identified thirteen species of fungi previously unknown in the British Isles, four of them new to science.