JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



SESSION CXXVII. 



Wednesdmj, I7th November 1897. — Professor J. Struthers, M.D., LL.D., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The retiring President delivered an Opening Address "On Rudimentary 

 Structures and their Meaning, in Man and in certain Animals." 



Wednesday, 15th December 1897 . — Professor J. Struthers, M.D., LL.D., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The following gentleman was elected an Ordinary Fellow of the Society : 

 Campbell Brown, Esq., M.A. 



The following Office-Bearers for the Session were elected : 



President— B. N. Peach, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Vice-Presidents — Andrew Wilson, L.D.S. ; Lieut. -Col. Bailey, F.Pt.G.S., 

 F.R.S.E.; Robert Munro, M.A., M.D., F.R.S.E. 



Secretary— R. H. Traquair, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. 



Assistant-Secretary — Percy H. Grimshaw, F.E.S. 



Treasurer— Gi^ORGE Lisle, F.F.A., C.A. 



Librarian — J. Arthur Thomson, M.A., F.R.S.E. 



Councillors — Wmiaim 0. Crawford, F.R.S.E.; Robert Kidston, F.G.S., 

 F.R.S.E.; Lionel W. Hinxman, B.A.; Thos. Scott, F.L.S.; J. G. 

 Goodchild, F.G.S.; R. Stewart MacDougall, B.Sc; Professor Malcolm 

 Laurie, M.A., D.Sc. ; Professor J. Struthers, M.D., LL.D. ; Professor 

 J. Cossar Ewart, F.R.S.; J. S. Flett, M.B., B.Sc; Lieut.-Col. R. G. 

 Wardlaw Ramsay ; T. B. Sprague, LL.D. 



The Secretary, Treasurer, and Librarian submitted their Annual Reports, 



The following communications were read: 



1. "On the TlTests, Eggs, and Playhouses of the Bower-Bii-ds" {Ptilonorhyn- 



chince). By Archibald J. Campbell, Esq., Melbourne. Com- 

 municated by J. J. Dalgleish, Esq. 



2. "Note on the Life-History of Lochmcea suturalis, a Beetle destructive to 



Heather, with Exhibition of Specimens." By Percy H. Grimshaw, 

 Esq., F.E.S. 



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