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!M0XDAY EVE>'I>''G, XoVEilBEE 8, 1875. 



WiLLiiJii Stoe:es, M. D., F. E. S., President, in the Chair.' 



Minutes of last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Secretary laid on the table the following Parts of the "Trans- 

 actions." 



Yol. XXY., Part 16, "On the Structure of the Spines in the 

 Diadematid^e." By H. W. Mackintosh, B. A. (With Plates XXXI* to 

 XXXIY.) [This Part had been published in August dui'ing the 

 recess.] 



Yol. XX Y., Part 19, " On the Binary Stars a Coronae, r Ophiuchi, 

 y Leonis, and ^ Aquarii." By Dr. Doberck. 



Yol. XXY., Part 20, " On the Supeiinduced Divisional Structure 

 of Eocks, called Jointing, and its Eelation to Slaty Cleavage." By Pro- 

 fessor W. Xing, Ph. D. With Plates XXXY. to XXXYIII. [This 

 Part concludes Yolume XXY., and contains Title page and Table of 

 Contents to the Yolume.] 



"Proceedings," Second Series, Yol. II., Science, Part 3, for July, 

 1875, and Part 4 for October, 1875. 



The President read the following Addi-ess : — 



In the past Academic Session we have lost by death four Ordinary 

 Members of the Academy, Mr. Andrew Armstrong, Mr. William 

 MacDougall, the Eev. Greorge Sidney Smith, andMr. Lawrence "Waldi'on ; 

 and three Honorary Members, Professor Heinrich Ewald of Gottingen, 

 Professor Hermann Ebel of Berlin, and Sir Charles Lyell. 



Professor Ewald was author of a critical grammar of the Hebrew 

 language, which is described by one of his biographers as an epoch-mak- 

 ing work that can never be superseded. Its composition occupied thirty 

 years from 1 843. He was a great historian and commentator as well as 

 linguist, not only a Hebraist and Biblical scholar, but master of many 

 Oriental languages. 



The next name on this roll of honoiu' is that of Dr. Hermann Ebel, 

 who filled the chair of Bopp, the founder of the Science of Compara- 

 tive Philology. He is principally known in this country as a Celtist, 

 and his remarkable series of studies in Celtic contributed to the Ger- 



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