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The following Papers were read : — 



I. " The Bending of Electric Waves round a Conducting Obstacle : 

 Amended Result." By H. M. Macdonald, F.R.S. 



II. " On the Propagation of Tremors over the Surface of an Elastic 

 Solid." By Professor H. Lamb, F.R.S. 



III. " The Diffusion of Salts in Aqueous Solutions." By J. C. 



Graham. Communicated by Professor W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S. 



IV. " On the Structure of Gold Leaf, and the Absorption Spectrum 



of Gold." By Professor J. W. Mallet, F.R.S. 



V. " On Reptilian Remains from the Trias of Elgin." By G. A. 



BOULENGER, F.R.S. 



VI. " A Method for the Investigation of Fossils by Serial Sections." 

 By Professor W. J. Sollas, F.R.S. 



VII. " An Account of the Devonian Fish, Palceospondylus Qunni, 

 Traquair." By Professor W. J. Sollas, F.R.S., and Miss 

 I. B. J. Sollas. 



VIII. " The Measurements of Tissue Fluid in Man. Preliminary Note." 



By Dr. G. Oliver Communicated by Sir Lauder 

 Brunton, F.R.S. 



IX. " Observations on the Physiology of the Cerebral Cortex of the 

 Anthropoid Apes." By Dr. A. S. F. Grunbaum and Pro- 

 fessor C. S. Sherrington, F.R.S. 



June 18, 1903. 



Sir WILLIAM HUGGINS, K.C.B., O.M., President, in the Chair. 



Dr. William Maddock Bayliss, Professor Thomas William Bridge, 

 Dr. Sydney Monckton Copeman, Mr. Horace Darwin, Mr. William 

 Philip Hiern, Mr. Henry R. A. Mallock, Mr. Arthur George Perkin, 

 Mr. John Edward Stead, and Mr. Aubrey Strahan were admitted into 

 the Society. 



