JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



SESSION CXVIIl. 



Wednesday, 21st Novcmher 1888.— Dr G. Sims Woodhead, F.K.C.P.E., 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The i'ollowing communications were read : 



1. "On the Structure of PterichtMjs and its Allies." By Dr R. H. Thaquair, 



F.R.S. 



2. " On Homosteus, Asniuss (Hugh Miller's Asterolcpis of Stromness)." By 



Dr R. H. TiiAQUAiR, F.R.S. 



3. " The Seal in Fresh Water." By J. A. Harvie-Beown, Esq. 



4. Mr George Brook, F.L.S., exhibited a Specimen of the Roller [Goracias 



garrula) shot at Lochbuie, Mull, on 8th September 1888. 



5. Dr Traqijair exhibited a Skeleton of the Great Auk {Alca impcnnis), 



recently added to the Natural History Department of the Museum of 

 Science and Art. 



Wednesday, l^th December 1888.^ — Professor Sir William Turner, LL.D., 



F.R.S., in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 W. Engle Clarke, Esq., F.L.S. ; P. D. Coghill, Esq.; Alfred Hutchinson, 

 Esq., B.Sc. (London); George Porter, Esq.; Philip J. AVhite, Esq., M.B., 

 CM. 



Reports were submitted by the Secretary, the Treasurer, and the Librarian. 

 The following Office-Bearers were elected : 

 President — Ramsay H. Traqitair, M.D., F.R.S. 

 Vice-Presidents — Professor James Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S.; G. Sims 



Woodhead, M.D., F.R.S. E. ; George Brook, F.L.S., F.R.S. E. 

 Secretary — William Evans, F.R.S. E. 

 Assistant- Secretary— John Gunn, F. R. S. G. S. 

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

 Librarian — William Russell, M.D., F.R.C. P. E. 



Councillors — Johnson Symington, M.D., F.R.S.E. ; John Falconer King, 

 F.C.S. ; J. A. Harvie-Brown, F.KS.E. ; G. Lovell Gulland, M.A., M.B^; 

 R. Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. ; T. B. Sprague, M.A., F.R.S.E.; 

 T. AVemyss Fulton, M.B., CM.; J. Gibson, Ph.D., F.R.S.E.; David 

 Hepburn, M.B. ; A. B. Herbert; Rev. A. B. Morris; Professor Sir 

 William Turner, LL.D., F.R.S. 



