PEOCEEDIN-QS 



OF THE 



ROYAL PHYSICAL SOCIETY 



ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH SESSION, 1875-76. 



Wednesday, 17 th November 1875. — Dr John Alex. Smith, President, 

 in the Chair. 



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

 the donors : 



1. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. IX., Parts 1, 2, 

 3, and 4. 2. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1874, 1875. 

 3. Revised List of the Animals in the Gardens of the Zoological Society, 1875. 

 — From the Society. 4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Nos. 

 160, 161, 162, and 163. — Fi'om the Society. 5. Journal of the Linnean 

 Society : Botany, Vol. XV., Nos. 77, 80, and 81 ; Zoology, VoL XII., No. 

 64. —From the Society. 6. Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of 

 Glasgow, 1874-1875. — From the Society. 7. Transactions of the Manchester 

 Geological Society, Vol. XIII., Parts 9 and 10. 8. Catalogue of the Library 

 of the Society. — From the Society. 9. Memoirs of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History, Nos. 1, 3, 4, and 5. 10. Proceedings of the Boston Society 

 of Natural History, Vol. XV., Parts 1 and 2. 11. Jeffries Wyraan Memorial 

 Meeting. — From the Society. 12. Proceedings of the Academy of the Phila- 

 delphia Academy of Natural Sciences, Parts 1, 2, and 3. 13. United States 

 Geological and Geographical Survey of Colorado, 1873. — From Professor 

 Hayden. 14. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, 

 Vol. VI. — From Professor Hayden. 15. Smithsonian Institution Report for 

 1873.— From the Institution. 16. Verhandlungen der K. K. Zool. -bot. Gesells- 

 chaft in Wien Band, XXIV., 1874. — From the Society. 17. Oversigt over 

 det Kongl. Danske Vidensk. Selskab., 1874, No. 2. — From the Academy. 



18. Verhand. der Verein fiir Erdkunde zu Dresden, 1875. — From the Society. 



19. Canadian Journal, Vol. XIV., No. 5. — From the Canadian Institute. 



20. La Spia Sismica, 1875. — From the Author (Jacopo Mensini). 21. Pro- 

 ceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol. IV., Nos. 2 and 3. — From the 

 Association. 22. Report of the Visitors to the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. 

 — From Professor Piazzi Smyth. 23. Sixty-fourth Report of the Swedenbor- 

 gian Society, 1875. — From the Society. 24. " Since I was a Student," by 

 Charles Scott, Advocate, 1875. — From the Author ; various Natural History 

 Book Catalogues from the Publishers. 



I. Dr Egbert Brown, in the absence of Mr Scot-Skirving, 

 the retiring President, then gave an address on the Arctic 



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