Journal. 487 



The following Office- Bearers for the Session were elected: 



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



Vice-Presidents — Robert Mtjnko, M.A., M.D., F.R.S.E.; J. S. Flett, 

 M.B., B.Sc; David Hepburn, M.D., F.E.S.E. 



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



Assistant- Secretary —y^ . S. BRrcE, F.R.S.G.S. 



Treasurer — George Lisle, F.F. A., C.A. 



Librarian— i. Stuart Thomson. 



Councillors — Professor J. Cossar Ewart, F.R.S. ; Lieut. -Colonel R. G. 

 Wardlaw Ramsay; T, B. Sprague, LL.D.: James Davidson, Esq.; 

 J. Arthur Thomson, M.A., F.R.S.E.; William Evans, F.R.S.E.; 

 Gregg Wilson, M.A., D.Sc; W. Eagle Clarke, F.L.S.; R. Kid- 

 STON, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. ; R. Turnbull, B.Sc; Lionel W. Hinxman, 

 B.A.; Robert C. Mossman, F.R.S.E. 



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



The following communications were read : 



1. "Preliminary Summary of the Fauna of Franz Josef Land." By 



William S. Bruce, Esq., F.R.S.G.S., and T. N. Johnston, Esq., 

 M.B., G.M. With Limelight Illustrations. 



2. "On a Skull of Risso's Grampus {Grampus griseus, Cuv.) obtained off 



the Isle of May." By the Secretary. 



3. "Exhibition, with Remarks, of the Eggs of Emheriza ciopsis from. Inno 



Fuji, Japan, and of Eniberiza sp. from Inno Mina, Japan." By 

 J. B. Dobbie, Esq., F.K.S.E. 



4. Dr Hepburn exhibited, with Remarks, an improved form of Craniometer 



and a new Osteometric Board. 



5. Dr MuNRO exhibited, on behalf of Mr Morris, Stirling, a portion of a 



Bovine Skull found in a street cutting in Stirling. 



Wednesday, 17 th January 1900. -Benj. N". Peach, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 Professor E. A. Schafer, F.R.S., ; Arthur T. Masterman, Esq., D.Sc. 



The following communications were read : 



1. "Results of Experiments bearing on Variation." By Professor J. C. 



EwART, M.D., F.R.S. 



2. "Exhibition of a new Index Calculator, an instrument for determining 



the Indices of Skulls without arithmetical calculation." By David 

 Waterston, Esq., M.B., CM. 



3. "Exhibition of Pyritised Fossils from the Lower Devonian Roofing-slate 



of Gmiindeu, Germany." By the Secretary. 



