Journal. 505 



Arthur C. Yonnan, M.B., CM.; Ernest F. Cox, L.D.S.; W. Owen Williams, 

 M.R.C.V.S. 



The following gentlemen were elected Corresponding Fellows of the Society : 

 Professor A. E. Nathorst, Stockholm: Professor Gustav Lindstrom, Stock- 

 holm. 



The following communications were read : 



1. ''Remarks on the Ovary of Echidna.'" By Frank E. Beddaed, M.A., 



F.R.S.E., F.Z.S. 



2. "Investigations on the Movements and Food of the Herring, 'with additions 



to the Fauna of the Shetland Islands." By Fred. G. Pearcey. 



3. *• Notes on the Birds of the Island of Eigg." By Wm. Evans, F.R.S.E. 



4. Exhibition, with Remarks, of Impressions of Raindrops, Recent and 



Fossil. By Robert Kidston, F.G.S. 



5. Exhibition, with Remarks, of a Specimen of Larus Kumlieni from Cum= 



berland Inlet ; also of Larus Sahini and other Species of Arctic Gulls. 

 By J. A. Harvie-Brown, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S. Mr Harvie-Brown also 

 exhibited a specimen of the Little Gull [Larus minutus), shot on 17th 

 December at Kincardine-on-Forth, and a Specimen of Forked-tailed 

 Petrel {Thai Leachii) from the Isle of May, shot on IStli August 1884. 



Wednesday, ISth February 1885. Professor J. Duns, D.D,, President, 

 in the Chair. 

 The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society : 

 George Brook, F.L.S. ; Percy M. Turnbull ; W. Ivison Macadam, F.C.S. 

 The following communications were read : 



1. " On Fossil Bones of Mammals obtained during Excavations at Silloth." 



By Professor W, Turner, M.B., F.R.S. 



2. "On some Modifications of Recording Apparatus for Physiological Pur- 



poses." By R. Milne Murray, M, A., M.B. ^ 



3. "On a New Fossil Fish — Elonichthys muUistriatus (Traq.), from the 



Blackband Ironstone of Gilmerton." By Dr Traquair, F.R.S. 



4. "The Aeration of Marine Aquaria." By George Brook, F.L.S. 



5. "On a New Modification of Lunge's Nitrometer." By John Hunter^ 



F.C.S. 



Wednesday, 18th March 1885.— B. N. Peach, F.G.S., F.R.S.E., President, 

 in the Chair. 

 The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Fellows of the Society: 

 Harold Raeburn ; J. Macdonald Brown, M.B., CM. ; Sidney E. Greg; W. 

 H. Barrett, M.B., CM. 



The following communications were read : 



1. "On certain Peat and Tarn Deposits in the North of England." By 



Hugh Miller, F.G.S. 



2. "On some New or little known Fossil Lycopods (Carboniferous)." By 



Robert Kidston, F.G.S. 



3. "On the Chemical Composition of some Samples of Scotch Ensilage." 



By W. IvisoN Macadam, F.C.S., etc. 



4. "Caseous Tumours found in the Muscles of the Hake." By G. Sims 



Woodhead, M. D. , F. R. C P. Ed. 



