78 Mr. \V. K. Parker. [June 19, 



June 19, 1884. 

 THE PRESIDENT in the Chair. 



The Presents received were laid on the table, and thanks ordered for 

 them. 



Professor George Johnston Allman, Professor Isaac Bayley Balfour, 

 Dr. James Bell, Professor John G. McKendrick, Dr. Arthur Ransome, 

 Professor Arthur William RUcker, Mr. Joseph John Thomson, and 

 Colonel Sir Charles Warren were admitted into the Society. 



The President read the following letter which had been received in 

 acknowledgment of the Memorial agreed to by the Society at their 

 meeting on April 3rd : 



Whitehall, 



30th April, 1884. 

 SIB, 



I have had the honour to lay before the Queen the loyal and 

 dutiful Address of the Royal Society of London for Improving 

 Natural Knowledge, on the occasion of the death of His Royal 

 Highness Prince Leopold, the Duke of Albany, K.G., and I have 

 the satisfaction to inform you that Her Majesty was pleased to receive 

 the Address very graciously. 



(Signed) W. V. HARCOUBT. 



The President of the Royal Society. 



THE BAKERIAN LECTURE "Experiments on the Discharge of 

 Electricity through Gases: Sketch of a Theory" was 

 delivered by Dr. SCHUSTER, F.R.S. 



The following Papers were read : 



I. " On the Structure and Development of the Skull in the 

 Mammalia. Part II : Edentata." By W. K. PARKER, F.R.S. 

 Received May 26. 1884. 



(Abstract.) 



My former paper on the structure and development of th< 

 mammalian skull was published in the " Philosophical Transactions 

 in 1874; it was on that of the Pig. 



