Journal. 223 



The following recommendation of the Council was carried: — 



"That the Council Meetings be held on the Third Monday, and the 

 ordinary Meetings of the Society on the Fourth Monday, of each 

 month during the Session, and that the Laws (Sect VII. 1, and 

 Sect. VIII.) be amended in accordance with this alteration." 



The following communications were read : 



1. **0n the Development of the Epiphysis in Fishes, Amphibians, and 



Birds." By John Cameron, Esq., M.B., Ch.B. 



2. " A Method of Craniometry for Mammals." With Lantern Illustrations. 



By 0. Charnock Bradley, Esq., M. B. 



3. "On a Simple Decimal Scale of Biological Measurement." By J G. 



GooDCHiLD, Esq., F G.S. 



4. "A Possible Factor in the Bathymetrical Distribution of Certain Reef- 



building Corals." By J. G. Goodchild, Esq., F.G.S. 



SESSION CXXXII. 



Monday y 2Uh November 1902. — Professor J. Cossar Ewart, M.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



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

 J. Wyclif Black, Esq. 



The following communication was submitted by the President: 



"Germ Cells and Germinal Continuity." By John Beard, Esq., D.Sc. 



Momlaij, 22ml December 1902.— Mr Wm. Evans, F. R.S.E., Vice-President, 



in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society: 

 Gerald Rowley Leighton, M.D,, CM. ; Henry Taylor, M.K.C.V.S. 



The following Office- Bearers for the Session were elected: 



President— Vtoh^^ov S. Cossar Ewart, M.D., F.K.S. 



Vice-Presidents— y^^\. Evans, F.R.S. E. ; Sir T. D. Gibson Carmichael. 

 Bart.; A. T. Masterman, D.Sc, F.R.S. E. 



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



Assistant- Secretary — 0. Charnock Bj-.adley^ M.B. 



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



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



Councillors— J) kvij) Wateuston, 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; J. G. 

 Goodchild, F.G.S.; J. S. Flett, M.B., D.Sc; James Bisset, F.L.S., 

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