Journal. 489 



SESSION CXXX. 



Wednesday, 2lst November 1900.— Benj. N. Peach, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



Mr B. N. Peach, F.R.S. , the retiring President, delivered the Opening 

 Address, entitled "Scottish Palaeontology during the last Twenty 

 Years, " 



Wednesday, I9th December 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 : 

 Cecil B. Crampton, Esq., M.B., CM. ; David Tait, Esq. 



The following Office-Bearers for the Session were elected : 

 President— 'Pvoiessov J . Cossar Ewakt, M.D., F.R.S. 

 Vice-Presidents— 3 . S. Flett, M.B.,B.Sc.; David Hepburn, M.D., F.R.S. E. ; 



W. S. Bruce, F.R.S.G.S. 

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

 Assistant- Secretary — Gregg Wilson, M.A., D.Sc. 

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

 Librarian — T. N. Johnston, M.B., CM. 

 Councillors— i . Arthur Thomson, M.A., F.R.S.E.; William Evans, F.R.S.E.; 



W. Eagle Clarke, F.L.S,; R. Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S.; R. Turnbull, 



B.Sc. ; Lionel W. Hinxraan, B.A. ; Robert C Mossman, F.R.S.E.; 



Professor E. A. Schafer, F.R.S.; Richard J. A. Berry, M.D. ; David 

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



F.R.S.E.; B. N. Peach, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



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

 The following communications were read : 



1. "Zoological Names and Theories of the Malays." By Nelson 



Annandale, Esq., B.A. Communicated by Dr Gregg Wilson. 



2. " Exhibition of Lantern Slides of Photographs of Living Insect", illustrat- 



ing Protective Resemblance." By the same. 



3. " Notes on Fossil Fishes from Eastern Fifeshire." By the Secretary. 



4 "Exhibition of Bees captured by Aranjia albens." By R. Stewart 

 MacDougall, Esq., D.Sc. 



Wednesday, I6th January 1901. — Professor J. CossAR Ewart, M.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 Nelson Annandale, Esq., B.A. ; J. H. Ash worth, Esq., D.Sc; F. H. A. 

 Marshall, Esq., B.A. 



The following communications were read : 

 1. "Notes on Fossil Fishes from Eastern Fifeshire." By the Secretary. 



