iv Proceedings. {October igth, igog. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 19th, 1909. 



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

 in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the tables. 



Mr. E. Y. Lange, M.I.Mech.E., exhibited photographs of 

 M. Bleriot and Baron de Caters navigating the air on aeroplanes 

 during the competition for the ;^2,ooo prize at Frankfort on 

 October loth. Baron de Caters, on a Voisin biplane, carrying 

 a 75 h.p. engine, won the prize after a flight of i hr. 7 min., 

 during which he travelled at an average speed of 44 miles. 

 M. Bleriot, in a monoplane with a 25 h.p. Anzani motor, 

 remained in the air i hour at a speed of 47 miles. 



The President exhibited lantern slides of three granite 

 monoliths situated in a peat bog near Tormore, Shiskine, in the 

 Isle of Arran, which were supposed to be the remains of a 

 former stone circle 60 feet in diameter. They are from 18 to 

 20 feet in height, and in the peat near them sepulchral remains 

 were found some years ago. The granite was stated to be 

 different from that found in the immediate neighbourhood, 

 and it was a point of interest how such large masses could 

 have been transported over the marshy ground. 



Mr. D. M. S. Watson thought it probable that the stones 

 had been placed in position before the bog was formed, and 

 that if the age of the stones could be made out, it might provide 

 a clue as to the rate of formation of the peaty deposit. 



Mr. T. A. Coward read a paper written by Mr. Lionel E. 

 Adams, and communicated by Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, 

 entitled " Some Notes on the Breeding Habits of the 

 Common Mole." The paper is printed in the Memoirs. 



