JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



SESSION CXV. 



TVednesday, 18th November 1S85.—B. N. Peach, F.R.S.E., 

 President, in the Chair. 

 An Opening Address was delivered by the President on " Some of the 

 Relations of Palseontology to Geology, illustrated chiefly by Examples from 

 the Scottish Rocks." 



Wednesday, IQth December 1885.— Professor Bjjns, D.D., F.R.S.E., 

 Vice-President, in the Chair, 

 The following Office-Bearers were elected : 



President — Professor William Turner, LL.D., F.R.S. 



Vice-Presidents — John A. Harvie-Brown, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S. ; Professor John 

 Duns, D.D., F.R.S.E. ; Professor J. Cossar Ewart, M.D., F.R.S.E. 



Secretary — Robert Gray, V.P.R.S.E. Assistant- Secretary — John Gibson, 



Treasurer — Charles Prentice, C.A., F.R.S.E. 



Librarian — William Evans Ho yle, M.A., F.R.S.E. 



CouneillorsSohn Hunter, F.C.S.; Robert Kidston, F.G.S. ; A. M. Herbert ; 

 Professor James Geikie, LL.D., RKS. ; G. Sims Woodhead, M.D., 

 F.R. C.P.Ed.; Hugh Miller, F.G.S., A.R.S.M.; Arthur W. Hare, M.B., 

 CM. ; R. Milne Murray, M.A., M.B., M.R.C.P.E. ; H. Moubray 

 Cadell, B.Sc. ; R. H. Traquair, M.D., F.R.S. ; R. Sydney Marsden, 

 D.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.C.S. ; B. N. Peach, F.G.S., F.R.S.k 

 The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 



G. Lovell Gulland, M.A., B.Sc. ; T. Arthur Helme, M.B., CM. ; George 



Brook French, M.R.C.S. ; R. F. C Leith, M.A., M.B., B.Sc. ; Wm. Hunter, 



M.B., CM. ; J. Barker Duncan, W.S. ; Henry T. Tomlinson, M.B., CM. 

 The following communications were read : 



1. "On the Species of the Genus Palceoxyris, Brong., occurring in British 



Carboniferous Rocks." By Robert Kidston, F.G.S. 



2. "On the Hatching of Herring in Deep Water." By Professor Ewart, 



F.R.S.E. 



3. " Notes on the Sucker Fishes, Livaris and Lepadogaster." By W. Ander- 



son Smith, of Ledaig. (Communicated by J. T. Cunningham, B.A.) 



4. "On the Nature of Segmentation in Fish Ova. " By George Brook, F. L. S. 



5. "On the Sense of Touch in Astacus." By G. L. Gulland, M,A., B.Sc. 



