Proceedings. ix 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 



Wednesday, March 30, 1898. 



Thomas Muir, LL.D., M.A., F.E.S.E., Vice-President, in the 

 Chair, nineteen members present, and eight visitors. 



Colonel Trotter, the Eev. P. N. Waggett, and Messrs. W. Fick, 

 F. O. F. Churchill, and D. Tennant, junr., were nominated for 

 election as ordinary members. 



The following accessions to the Library were announced : 



The Scottish Geographical Magazine, Nos. 2, 3. 



Eighth Eeport of the Missouri Botanical Gardens. St. Louis, 



1897. 

 Actes de la Society Scientifique du Chili, Vol. VII., Part 4. 



Santiago, 1897. 

 La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, No. 329, 1898. 

 Catalogue de la Bibliotheque, ibid., 1898. 

 Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, No. 82. 

 Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and 



Philosophical Society, 1897-98, Vol. XLII., Part 1. 

 Icebergs in the Southern Ocean, by H. C. Kussell. Sydney, 1897. 

 E. Cohen. Ueber das Vorkommen von Eisencarbid (Cohenit) im 



terrestrischen Nickeleisen von Niakornak bei Jakobshavn in 



Nord-Gronland ; Ueber ein neues Meteoreisen von Ballinoo, 



am Murchison fluss, Australien ; Ein neues Meteoreisen von 



Beaconsfield, Colonie Victoria, Australien. 

 Annals of the Queensland Museum, No. 4. Brisbane, 1897. 

 Boletin Mensual del Observatorio Meteorologico Central. Nov. 



Table. 

 Upsala Universitets Arsskrift. Mathematik och Naturvetenskap, 



1868-76, 28 Parts. 

 Festskrift Wilhelm Lilljeborg, af Svenska Zoologer. Upsala, 



1896. 

 Zur Ornithologie Kameruns nebst einigen Angaben iiber die 



Saugethiere des Landes, von Ungve Sjostedt. 

 Der Wal Svedenborg's, von Carl W. S. Aurivilius. Stockh., 1888. 

 Forty-four pamphlets and theses presented by the Library of the 



Upsala Eoyal University. 

 Professor Morrison gave an exhibition of Joly's process of colour 

 photography, and discoursed at length on the principles on which it 

 is based. 



Mr. Foucarde exhibited stone implements found in the neighbour- 

 hood of Knysna, one of which was of a shape hitherto unknown. 



