35-1 Frocccdinrjs of the Royal Physical Society. 



SESSION CXII. 



IVcdncsdau, \Uh November 1%'&2. — Dr Traquair, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 

 The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society ; 

 Alexander R, Coldstream, M.D. ; W. J. Nicol, M.A., B.Sc. ; James Gordon 

 Mason, S.S.C. ; Robert Wallace. 



The following communications were read : 



1. Introductory Remarks by Dr Traquair, President. Dr Traquair stated 



that Professor Archibald Geikie, the retiring President, had not been able 

 to undertake to deliver the usual Opening Address at this Meeting, 

 but that 'arrangements had been made for his doing so before the close 

 of the present Session. 



2. "Obituary Notice of the late Sir C. Wyville Thomson, F.R.S." By 



George Leslie, M.B., CM. 

 o. "Notes on some Ethnographical Specimens brought from the Nicobar 

 Islands by Colonel Cadell, V.C, Chief Commissioner of the Andaman 

 and Nicobar Islands. " By Alexander Galletly. 



4. Mr Gedde8 exhibited, with remarks, a specimen of the Poisonous Lizard 



{Heloderma horrida). 



5. Mr Gibson exhibited a light cream-coloured variety of the Common 



Thrush, which had been shot at Ardnamurchan Point on 27th Septem- 

 ber last, and was now in the Collection of Mr J. J. Dalgleish, a Fellow 

 of the Society. 



Wednesday, 20^/i i)cce??i&cr 1882. —Dr Traquair, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 

 The following Office- Bearers were elected : 

 Presidents — Professor H. A. Nicholson, M.D. ; R. H. Traquair, M.D., 



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

 Secretary — Robert Gray, F.R.S.E. Assistant-Secretary— 3 on^ Gibson. 



Treasurer — Chas. Prentice, C.A., F.R.S.E. Librarian— 3. T. Gray, M.A. 

 Councillors — D. J. Surenne ; John Walcot ; Professor J. Duns, D.D., 

 F.R.S.E.; T. B. Sprague, M.A. ; William Evans; Andrew Wilson; 

 A. C. Stark; Patrick Geddes, F.R.S.E. ; F. E. Beddard, B.A.Oxon. ; 

 J. Symington, M.B., CM. ; Andrew Moffat; John ^Hunter, F.C.S. 

 The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 William Cleaver Woods, M.B., CM. ; Matthew Hay, M.D. 

 The following communications were read : 



1. "On the genus Ctenodiis." By Dr Traquair, F.R.S. 



2. "Note on the Occurrence of Lithobius varicgatus (Newp.) in Scotland." 



By T. D. Gibson-Carmiciiael. 



3. "Some Notes on the Anatomy of the Myriapoda, " Part I. By T. D. 



Gibson-Carmichael, 



4. " On a New Nematoid Worm." By l""- E. Beddard, B.A.Oxon. 



5. Mr R. Gray exhil)ited, with remarks, a specimen of the Pectoral Sand- 



l»iper ( Triiuja maculata, Vieill. ), shot on the banks of Loch Lomond on 



