488 Proceedings of the Rayed Physical Society. 



Wednesday, 2\st February 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: 

 William L. Macgillivray, Esq.; James Watt, Esq., C.A. 



The following communications were read • 



1. "Contributions to the Ethnology and Anthropology of the Somali, 

 Abyssinian, Galla, and Shangalla Races." By Reginald Kcett- 

 LiTZ, Esq., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R. C.P.Ed. Communicated by Wm. 

 S. Bruce, Esq., F.R.S.G.S. 



2 " Exhibition of Skulls, Implements, and Insects collected by Dr Koettlitz." 

 By Wm. S. Bruce, Esq., F.R.S.G.S. 



3. "Results of Meteorological Observations taken in Edinburgh during 

 1899." By R. C. Mossman, Esq., F.R.S.G.S. 



IVcdnesclay, 2lst March 1900.— Benj, N. Peach, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The following communications were read : 



1. " Results of Meteorological Observ^ations taken in Edinburgh during 



1899." By R. C. Mossmax, Esq., F.R.S.E 



2. "Notes on the Early Development of Crihrella oculata {Echinastcr san- 



guinolenta), with Observations on General Asterid Development." 

 By A. T. Masterman, Esq., M.A., D.Sc. 



3. "Notes on the Development of Ceratodus — (1) the Lung, (2) the Ex- 



cretory Organs." By Gregg Wilson, Esq., D.Sc. 



rVednesday, IStk April 1900.— Be:^.j. N. Peach, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Honorary Fellows of the Society: 

 Herbert Kynaston, Esq., B.A., F.G.S. ; George Sandeman, Esq, M.A.; 

 James Miller, Esq., B.Sc, M.B., Ch.B. 



The following communications were read : 



1. "On the Dentition of a Young Specimen of Sowerby's Whale {Mcso- 



plodon bidens, Sow.)." By Dr Traquair, F.R.S , and William 

 Taylor, Esq. 



2. " Notes on Mammalian and other Fragmentary Bones from Smoo Cave, 



Durness, Sutherlandshire." By David Hepburn, Esq., M.D. 



3. ' ' Preliminary List of the Hymcnoptera aculcata of the Edinburgh 



District." By William Evans, Esq., F.R.S.E. 



4. "Simpler Methods in Crystallography. Part I., Stereograms." By 



J. G. GooDCHiLD, Esq., F.G.S. 



