XVI Proceedings. {^February ph,i git. 



Ordinary Meeting, February 7th, 191 1. 



Mr. Francis Jones, M.Sc, F.R.S.E., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of 

 the books upon the tables. 



Mr. J. H. WoLFENDEN, B.Sc, and Mr, H. E. Schmitz, 

 M.A., B.Sc, were nominated auditors of the Society's accounts 

 for the session 1910-1911. 



Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, D.Sc, F.R.S., made a short 

 communication on the origin of the Roman numerals I.-X., 

 in which he suggested that they were derived from a system of 

 numeration employed by the inhabitants of Crete during the 

 Minoan civilisation. This conclusion was based on a comparison 

 of the Roman numerals with a set of Minoan numerical symbols 

 which Sir Arthur Evans, the distinguished excavator of Crete, 

 had shown to Prof. Dawkins. 



Mr. Robert Cotton, M.Sc, read a paper written by 

 Prof A. H. Gibson, D.Sc, entitled ''The Manner of Motion 

 of Water Flowing in a Curved Path." 



Miss Margaret C March, B.Sc, read a paper, communi- 

 cated by Dr. George Hickling, entitled " Studies in tne 

 Morphogenesis of certain Pelecypoda. II. The An- 

 cestry of the Gibbosae." 



Both papers are printed in full in the Memoirs. 



Ordinary Meeting, February 21st, 191 1. 



Mr. Francis Jones, M.Sc, F.R.S.E., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of 

 the books upon the tables. 



