

PEOCEEDINGS 



ROYAL PHYSICAL SOCIETY 



SESSION CXIV. 



Wednesday, \ 9th November 1SS4:. — Eamsay H. Traquair, 

 Esq., M.D., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Chairman delivered the following opening address : 



Gentlemen, — "We come together this evening in the full 

 hope and confidence that the success and prosperity which 

 have attended our gatherings during the past few years will 

 not be less in the present Session of the Eoyal Physical 

 Society, the 114th since its foundation. On this occasion 

 I think we may justly point to the new part of our Pro- 

 ceedings now on the table, and containing the papers of last 

 session, as evidence that our prosperity is not merely one 

 of increased membership, or of gathering in of fees, but 

 of work done. For the first time in my memory the 

 Proceedings of a previous session have been laid on the 

 table ready for distribution on the opening night of the 

 following one, and for this we must thank the energy and 

 industry of our Secretary, whose position as Editor of these 

 Proceedings is by no means one of calm contemplation, 

 but one of hard and often very harassing work. The part 

 itself consists of 273 pages, with 10 plates, and contains 

 20 papers besides an address by Dr A. Geikie, Director- 

 General of the Geological Survey. In this address Dr 

 Geikie gives, in his well-known lucid style, an admirable 

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