JOURNAL OF PK0CEEDING8. 



SESSION CXXXI. 



Wednesday, 20^7t iVovemfeer 1901.— Professor J. Cossar Ewart, M.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in tlie Chair. 



Dr David Hepburn, F.R.S.E., Vice-President, delivered the Opening 

 Address, entitled, "On some Morphological Evidences of the Evolution of Man." 



Wednesday, 18th December 1901.— Professor J. Cossar Ewart, M.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair, 



The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 J. D. Falconer, Esq. ; James Alexander Waddell, Esq. 



The following Office -Bearers for the Session were elected : 

 President— VrofessoT J . Cossar Ewart, M.D., F.R.S. 



Vice-Presidents— Bayib Hepburn, M.D., F.R.S. E. ; W. S. Bruce, F.R.S. G.S. ; 

 William Evans, F.R.S.E. 



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



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



T'ymsMrer— George Lisle, F.F.A., C.A. 



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



Ooimcillors -Lionel W. Hinxman, B. A. ; Robert C. Mossman, F.E.S.E. ; 

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

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

 LL.D., F.R.S.E.; B. N. Peach, F.R.S., F.G.S.; Sir T. D. Gibson 

 Carmichael, Bart.; J. G. Goodchild, F.G.S. ; A. T. Masterman, 

 D.Sc, F.R.S.E.; 0. C. Bradley, M.B., CM.; J. S. Flett, M.B., D.Sc. 



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



The following communications were read : 



1. "Notes on the Wild Horse of Central Asia {Equus PrzeicalsMi, 



Poliakoff)." By the President. 



2. "What Determines the Sacral Region in Mammals?" By David 



Hepburn, Esq., M.D., F.R.S.E., and David Waterston, Esq., 

 M.D., F.R.C.S.E. 



3. "Exhibition, with Remarks, of a Scottish Specimen of the Blackfish 



{Centrolo'phus niger, Lacep.). By the Secretary. 



