vi Proceedings of the Koyal Physical Society. 



Monday, 27th Sovember 1911. — J. H. Ashwokth, Esq., D.Sc, Vice-President, 



in the Chair. 



The Secretary, the Treasurer, and the Librarian submitted their Annual 

 Reports. 



The following Office-Bearers for the Session were elected : 



President— Professor J. Arthur Thomson, M.A., F.E.S.E. 



I 'ire- Presidents — Lionel W. Hinxman, B.A., F.R.S.E. ; Professor E. A. Schafer, LL.D., 

 F.R.S. ; Principal 0. Charnook Bkadley, M.D., D.Sc, F.R.S.E. 



Secretary — James Ritchie, M.A., B.Sc. 



Assistant-Secretary — D. C. M'Intosh, M.A., B.Sc, F.li.S.E. 



Treasurer — Wm. Williamson, F.E.S.E. 



Librarian — Percy H. Grimshaw, F.E.S., F.R.S.E. 



Councillors— Wm. Evans, F.F.A., F.R.S.E.; Professor T. H. Bryce, M.A., M.D., F.R.S.E.; 

 Professor T. Hudson Beare, B.A., B.Sc, F.R.S.E.; G. W. Lee, D.Sc; W. A. Jolly, 

 M.B., Ch.B.; Professor Arthur Robinson, M.D.; E. B. Jamieson, M.D.; Professor 

 L. A. L. King, M.A.; J. H. Ashwokth, D.Sc, F.R.S.E.; Professor D'ArcyW. Thompson, 

 O.B., B.A.; W. S. Bruce, LL.D., F.R.S.E.; W. E, Agar, B.A., D.Sc. 



The following Communications were submitted : 



1. "Exhibition of Specimens of Sympctrumfonscolombii — a Dragon-fly new to the Scottish List." 



By Wm. Evans, Esq., F.R.S.E. 



2. "An Aid to the Study of Neraatocysts : with demonstration of apparatus." By T. H. 



Taylor, Esq., M.Sc. (Communicated by Professor J. Arthur Thomson.) 



3. "Note on Pelagic Organisms and Evolution.'' By Professor J. Gkaham Kerr, F.R.S. 



Monday, ISlh December 1911. — Princiijal O. Chaknock Bradley, Vice-President, 



in the Chair. 



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

 A. Landsborough Thomson, Esq., M.A.; A. P. Jameson, Esq.. B.Sc; Gilbert 

 James Murray, Esq.; Oliver Hilton Wild, Esq.; W. P. F. M'Lintock, Esq., B.Sc. 



Theodore Rettie, Esq., D.Sc, was formally admitted a Fellow of the Society. 



The following Communications were submitted : 



1. "Northern Arctic Paheozoie Fossils collected by Sir William Edward Parry." By G. \V. 

 Lee, Esq., D.Sc. 



•J. "'S.Mitiu' culli-ctioiis— Further Note on Microscopic Life on Gough Island, South Atlantic 



Ocean." By Dr Eugene Penard, Geneva. (Communicated by Wm. Evans, Esq., 



F.R.S.E.) 

 '■',. Exhibition ol a recently described Species of Chameleon from Uganda. By Miss Marion 1. 



Ni.u i;it.i\, D.Sc. 

 ■I. " Exhibition of a case of Similar Adaptations in Different Organs, in Crustacea " By James 



Ritchie, Esq., M.A.. B.Sc 

 5. "Exhibition and Description of a Model of an Eurypterid." By B. N. Peaoh, Esq., LL.D., 



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