x Proceedings. [December ist,rpi^. 



Ordinary Meeting, December ist, 1914. 



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The President, Mr. Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S., 

 in the Chair. 



A vote of thanks was accorded the donors of the books 

 upon the table. Amongst these were : " Wheat — and its Rela- 

 tion to the Present Crisis" by W. A. Evans (4to., Leicester, 

 19 14), presented by the Leicester Literary and Philosophical 

 Society ; (i On the Relation between the velocity of the Gradient 

 Wind and that of the Observed Wind," by J. Fairgrieve (Geo- 

 physical Memoirs, No. 9) (4to., London, 19 14), " The Effect of 

 the Labrador Current... Temperature of the North Atlantic" 

 Part II., by M. W. C. Hepworth (Geophysical Memoirs, No. 10) 

 (4to., London, T914), "Report on the Work car?-ied out by the 

 S.S. ^ Scotia? 1913," (fol., London, 1914), and " Maps, Charts, 

 and Diagrams to illustrate the Report. ..S.S. ''Scotia? igi j," 

 (fol., London, 1914), presented by the Meteorological Office, 

 London. 



Dr. Herbert Ramsden made a short communication 

 relating to the nature of wounds caused by bullets, especially 

 wounds received at close range, which are known to present the 

 complicated nature of " dum dum " bullet wounds. 



Mr. Cecil H. Lander, M.Sc, A.M.Inst.CE., read a paper 

 entitled " Graphical Determination of the Stresses in 

 the Main Spars of Monoplanes." 



Professor W. H. Lang, M.B., D.Sc, F.R.S., read a paper 

 entitled : " Studies in the Morphology of Isoetes. 

 Part I., The General Morphology of the Stock of 

 Isoetes." 



These papers are printed in full in the Memoirs. 



