JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



SESSION CXIII. 



Wednesday, list November I^S^.—Kambay H. Traquair, M.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected as Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 Charles Fraser ; George Sheriff. 



An Opening Address was delivered by Professor Archibald Geikie, 

 LL.D., F.R.S., on ''The Origin of Coral Reefs." 



Wednesday, 19th December 1883.— Dr Traquair, F.R.S., President, in 



the Chair. 

 The following Office-Bearers were elected : 

 Presidents — Ramsay H. Traquaie, M.D., F.R.S. ; Benjamin N. Peach, 



A.R.S.M., F.R.S.E. ; John A. Harvie-Brown, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S. 



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



Treasurer— CB.XS. Prentice, C.A., F.R.S.E. Librarian— i. T. Gray, M.A. 



Councillors— T. B. Sprague, M.A. (Cantab.), F.R.S.E.; William Evans; 



Andrew Wilson, L.D.S. ; A. C. Stark, M.B. ; Patrick Geddes, F.R.S.E. ; 



Frank E. Beddard, M.A.(Oxon.), F.R.S.E. ; Johnson Symington, M.B., 



etc. ; Andrew Moffat; John Hunter, F.C.S. ; R. Sydney Marsden, D.Sc, 



F.R.S.E. ; Robert Kidston, F.G.S. ; A. B. Herbert. 



The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 



William Gemmell, M.B., CM. ; Alexander Adam; Alexander Black, M.B., 



CM., M.R.CP.E. ; Thomas Duddingston Wilson, M.A., M.B., F.R.CS.E. ; 



David Hepburn, M.B., CM. ; Charles Kennedy, M.B., CM. ; George W. 



Dickson, M.B,, CM., M.A. ; Lieut. R. M. Richardson; John Cowper ; 



David Lindsay, M.B., CM. ; J. Evans Jackson; A. H. W. Clemow, M.B., 



CM. ; A. W. Hare, M.B., CM. ; Professor J. Cossar Ewart, M.D., 



F.R.S.E. ; Robert Mitchell ; John Henderson ; A. F. Bowie. 



The following gentleman was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society : 

 Archibald Geikie, LL.D., F.R.SS.L. & E., Director General of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Great Britain and Ireland. 

 The following communications were read : 



1. "Notes on the genus Gyracanthus." By R. H. Traquair, M.D., F.R.S. 



2. "On a Specimen of Peco'pteris {1 polymorpha, Brongt. ) in Circinate Verna- 



tion, with remarks on the genera Spiropteris and Rhizomopteris of 

 Schimper." By Robert Kidston, F.G.S. 



3. **0n a new Species of Sehutzia from the Calciferous Sandstones of 



Scotland." By Robert Kidston, F.G.S. 



4. "On the Structure of Sarcodictyon." By Professor W. A. Herdman, 



D.Sc, F.R.S.E. 



