PEOCEEDINGS 



ROYAL PSYSIOAL SOCIETY. 



0]S^E HUNDRED AND FOURTH SESSION, 1874-75. 



Wednesday, 17th November 1874.— Dr James M'Bain, R.N., President, 

 in the Chair. 



In accordance with a recommendation of the Council, it was resolved to 

 change the date of the Society's meetings from the fourth to the third 

 Wednesday of each month, for this Session at least. It was also resolved 

 that in future the Society's proceedings should be issued monthly. 



Robert Gray, Esq. , 13 Inverleith Eow, was elected a Resident Member. 



The following Donations to the Library were received, and thanks voted to 

 the Donors : 



1. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. VIIL, Parts 

 7 and 8. — From the Society. 2. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 

 Vol. HI., Nos. 6, 7, and 8. — From the Association. 3. Proceedings of the 

 Eoyal Society, Vol. XXII., Part 154.— From the Society. 4. (1.) Proceedings 

 of the Linnean Society, Session 1873-74. (2.) Journal of the Linnean Society 

 (Botany), Vol. XIV., No. 77. (3.) Do. (Zoology), Vol. XII., No. 58.— From 

 the Society. 5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Session 

 1872-73. — From the Society, 6. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological 

 Society, Vol. 11. , Part 3. — From the Society. 7. Proceedings of the Philo- 

 sophical Society of Glasgow, 1873-74, Vol. IX., No. 1. — From the Society. 

 8. Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, No. XV., April 1874. — From 

 the Institute. 9. The Canadian Journal of Science, Literature, and History, 

 Vol. XIV., Nos. 2 and 3. — From the Canadian Institute. 10. Porter and 

 Coulter's Sjoiopsis of the Flora of Colorado. 11. Proceedings of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1868-1873. 12. Memoirs of the Boston Society 

 of Natural History, Vol. II., Part 111, Nos. 1 and 2. 13. Bulletin de 

 I'Academie Royale des Sciences, &c., de Belgique, 1873, 2 Vols. — From the 

 Academy. 



I. Dr M'Bain, E.N., retiring President, then delivered the 

 following address : 



Gentlemen, — Eleven years have elapsed since I had the 

 pleasure and privilege of addressing you from this chair. 



We were then congratulating ourselves upon the satisfac- 



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