Journal. 361 



JFednesday, I6th March 1881.— Professor H. A. Nicholson, President, 

 in tlie Chair. 

 The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 Jasper J. Capper ; Pi. J. Sliaw Simpson, M.A. ; A. P. Laurie ; Frank 

 W. Young ; Eobert Hamilton ; D, W. Kemp, 

 The Council reported that in accordance with the powers given them at the 

 Society's last meeting, they had resolved that Ptule VII., referring to the 

 management of the Society, should be altered as follows : " The management 

 of the Society shall be vested in a Council consisting of three Presidents, 

 a Treasurer, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Librarian, and twelve other 

 Fellows, whose election and duties are hereinafter prescribed. Such gentle- 

 men as have filled the office of President shall also be Members of Council." 

 The following communications were read : 



1. "The Migration of Mammals." By Professor J. Duxs. 



2. "On the Presence of the Scattered Skeletal Remains of Holothuroidea in 



the Carboniferous Limestone Series of Scotland." By R. Etheridge, 

 Jun. 



3. "On the Morphology of the Cell. " By Patrick Gedde.s. 



JFednesday, 20^A^^j>i7 1881.— Professor Arch. Geikie, F.R.S., President, 



in the Chair. 

 The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society: 

 Hugh Miller ; Ernest V. Annandale ; Thomas Richardson ; John 

 Gibson, Ph.D., Henry Mowbray Cadell. 

 The following communications were read : 



1. "On the Olfactory Tubercle as a Specific Character in Ascidians." By 



W. A. Herdman, D.Sc. 



2. "The Glaciation of Caithness." By B. K Peach, F.R.S.E., and John 



Horne, F.R.S.E. 



3. "The Invertebrate Fauna of the Firth of Forth, Part II., comprising 



Protozoa, Polyzoa, Crustacea, and Tunicata; Part III., comprising the 

 Porifera, Codentcrata (pars), Vermes, Pycnogonida, Molhtsca." By 

 George Leslie, and W. A. Herdman, D.Sc. 



4. "On a Collection of Birds and Eggs from Central Uruguay," with 



exhibition of Specimens. By John J. Dalglelsh. 



5. Dr Traquair exhibited, with remarks, a specimen of the King Duck 



(Somateria S2)ectabiUs), shot in Fifeshire. 



6. "On the Habits of Parus major and ParKS coirulcus in Confinement," 



By Wm. Evans. 



