PEOCEEDINGS 



ROYAL PHYSICAL SOCIETY. 



ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH SESSION, 1877-78. 



Wednesdcaj, 21st November 1877.— J) a\it> Gt.ieye, Esq., F.E.S.E., F.G.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for, and duly elected as Resident 

 Members: Alexander Galletly, Esq., Curator, Museum of Science and Art, 

 Edinburgh; Robert Etheridge, jun., Esq., F.G.S., Geological Survey of 

 Scotland, Edinburgh; Edward C. Joass, Esq., 1 Eankeillor Street; James 

 A. J. Smith, Esq., Surgeon, 49a Albany Street, Leith. 



The following donations to tlie Library were laid on the table, and thanks 

 voted to the donors : 



1. Zoological Society of London : Transactions, Vol. IX,, Part 11 ; Vol. X., 

 Parts 1, 2. Proceedings, 1876, Part 4; 1877, Parts 1, 2.— From the Society. 

 2. Proceedings of the Royal Society (of London), Vol. XXVI., Nos. 179-181 

 (March 1 to May 31, 1877). — From the Society. 3. Journal of the Linnean 

 Society— Zoology, Vol. XIIL, Nos. 68-70 ; Botany, Vol. XVI., Nos. 89-91.— 

 From the Society. 4. Proceedings of the (London) Geologists' Association, 

 Vol. v., Nos. 1, 2 (Jan. and Ap. 1877).— From the Association. 5. Pro- 

 ceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1876, Parts 1-3. 

 — From the Academy. 6. Oversigt over det Kongilige Danske Videnska- 

 bernes Selskabs Forhandlinger, 1876, No. 2, and 1877, No. 1. Also, Tyge 

 Brahes Meterologiske Dagbog, 1582-97: udgiven af det Kgl. Danske Viden- 

 skabernes Selskab.— From the Society. 7. The Canadian Journal of Science, 

 Literature, and History, Vol. XV., Nos. 5, 6. — From the Canadian Institute. 

 8. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society, Vol. XIV., Parts 9-13. 

 —From the Society. 9. Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 

 Vol. IX., Part 4. — From the Society. 10. Transactions of the Edinburgh 

 Geological Society, Vol. III., Part 1.— From the Society. 11. Proceedings 

 of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, Vol. X., No. 2 (1876-77).— From 

 the Society. 12. Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, Vol. 

 VIII. , No. 1. — From the Club. 13. Registro Meteorologico del Observatorio 

 Central del Palacio Nacional de Mexico, May and June, 1877. — From the 

 Ministry of the Interior, Mexico. 14. Report of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, Washington, for 1876. — From the Institution. 15. U.S. Survey of the 

 Territories, under F. V. Hayden : (1.) Survey for 1867-69 ; (2.) Snrvey of 

 Wyoming, 1870; (3.) Survey of Montana, 1871; (4.) Survey of Colorado, 

 1874 — in all, 5 vols., Svo. (a.) Cretaceous Vertebrata, Vol. IT., by E. D. 

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