568 Proceedings of the Royal Phydcal Society. 



Wednesday, 16th March 1837.— Professor Sir William Turner, President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Chairman announced that, owing to the death of Mr Robert Gray, the 

 Council had appointed Dr R. H. Traquair as Interim Secretary until the next 

 annual meeting. 



The following minute of condolence, which had been forwarded by the 

 Council to Mrs Gray, was approved by the Society : — 



" The Council of the Royal Physical Society herewith records its deep sense 

 of the very serious loss which the Society has sustained by the death of its 

 Secretary, Mr Robert Gray. 



"Few men, if any, could be found whose natural gifts presented so rare a 

 combination of all the qualities desirable in an efficient Secretary, — no one 

 who would more enthusiastically and unselfishly have devoted his time and 

 his energies to a task whose only reward could be the consciousness of having 

 benefited others. 



" During the ten years of Mr Gray's tenure of office as Secretary, the Royal 

 Physical Society rose from a comparatively languishing state to one of new 

 life and prosperity ; and there can be no doubt that this result was principally 

 due to his business talent, to his unflagging energy, to the wide range of his 

 scientific sympathies, to his high reputation in his own particular branch of 

 Natural History, to his sterling integrity of character, and to his unfailing 

 amiability of disposition, which secured him the support and co-operation of 

 all who were interested in the welfare of the Society. 



''Febij. 28th, 1SS7. (Sigd.) Wm. Turner, Pmses." 



The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 E. Albert Sturman, M.A., LL.D.; Charles Alexander MacMunn, M.A., M.D, ; 

 Alexander Goodman More, F.Z.S., M.R.I. A. ; John Gunn ; George J. Dundas ; 

 H. C. Corke, F.R.S.E. ; R. M. Ferguson, M.D. 



The following communications were read : 



1. " Notice of the Capture of Belphinus delphis in the Firth of Forth." By 



Sir William Turner, LL.D., F.R.S. 



2. "Notes on Diseased Bones in Fishes." By G. Sims Woodhead, M.D., 



F.R.S.E. 



3. " Notes on the Larval Stages of Motdla ;" with exhibition of -sj^ecimens. 



By George Brook, F.L.S. 



4. " Note on the Habits of the Water Vole." By Professor Duns, D.D. 



Wednesday, 20th April 1887. — Professor John Duns, D.D., Vice-President, 



in the Chair. 

 The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society ; 

 "W. L. Calderwood ; George Denholm ; Rev. Canon Norman, M.A., D.C.L. ; 

 Hugh A. Webster, M.A. ; Clement G. Hailes, M.D., CM. 



The following communications were read : 

 1. "On the Structure and Affinities of Chondrosteiis adjienscroides, Agassiz." 

 By R. H. Traquair, M.D., F.R.S. 



