JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



SESSION CVIII. 



Wednesday, 20ih November 1878.— J. Falconer Kino, Esq., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected as Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 Edward Sang; James F. Mackay, W.S. ; R. Vary Campbell, Advocate; 

 Alexander Matheson. 



An Opening Address was delivered by Mr King, the retiring President, on 

 ♦•The Early History of Chemistry." 



Dr J. A. Smith exhibited several British Birds (see Proceedings, p. 33), 

 also a large Skull oi Halichosrus gryphus on which he made some remarks. 



Wednesday, ISth December 1878.— Professor J. Duns, D.D., President, 



in the Chair. 

 The following Office- Bearers were elected : 



Presidents— Uausay H. Traquair, M.D. ; Professor J. Duns, D.D. ; 

 Robert Etheridge, Jun. 

 Secretary— Robert Gray. Assistant Secretary — John Gibson. 



Treasurer — E. W. Dai-las. Librarian — Rev. J. Kennedy, M.A. 



Councillors — David Grieve ; John Hunter ; T. W. Drinkwater ; J. F. King ; 

 Professor Archibald Geikie ; Charles Prentice ; Thomas White, S. S. C. ; 

 James Anderson ; John Murray ; William Ferguson ; Andrew Taylor ; 

 Principal Williams. 

 The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 J. Hamilton Buchanan ; Robert Kidston ; and A. Macconochie. 

 The following communications were read : 



1. " Notes on the Natural History of Islay." By R. Scot-Skirvixg. 



2. "On Fossil Fishes from the Oil Shales of Edinburghshire and Linlithgow- 



shire." By Dr R. H. Traquair. 



Wednesday, IZth January 1879.— Mr D. Grieve, President, in the Cliair. 

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

 John Sutherland Mackay, M.A., M.B., CM. 

 The following communications were read : 



1. "Note on the Migration of the Pied Wagtail (Motadlla Yarrellii).'" By 



A. B. Herbert. 



2. "Notes on some examples of Torrent Action near Blairgowrie and Edin- 



burgh." By Andrew Taylor. 



3. "Note on an Electrical Phenomenon exhibited by Geissler's Tubes." By 



W. C. Crawford, M.A. 

 Mr Crawford drew the attention of the Society to a phenomenon of 



