212 Proceedings of the Boyal Physical Society. 



Wednesday, December 28, 1 864 — William Turner, M.B., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The following Gentlemen were elected Office-bearers for the Session : 



Presidents. — David Page, Esq. ; William Turner, M.B. ; Thomas 

 Strethill Wright, M.D. 



Council. — A. M'Kenzie Edwards, Esq.; Alexander Bryson, Esq.; 

 William S. Young. Esq. ; James M'Bain, M.D. ; Ramsay H. Traquair, 

 M.D. ; Stevenson Macadam, Ph.D. 



Secretary. — John Alexander Smith, M.D. 



Treasurer. — George Logan, Esq., W.S. 



Assistant- Secretary. — James Boyd Davies, Esq. 



Honorary Librarian. — Robert F. Logan, Esq. 



Library Committee. — Thomas Robertson, Esq. ; Andrew Taylor, 

 Esq. ; W. Rhind, Esq. 



The following Donations to the Library were laid on the table, and 

 thanks voted to the Donors : — 



1. Proceedings of the Ptoyal Society, London. Vol. XIII., No. 68, 

 1864. — From the Royal Society. 2. Notes of a Trip to Iceland in 1862. 

 By Alexander Bryson, F.R.S.E., F.G.S.— From the Author. 3. Jahr- 

 buch der Kaiserlich-Kdniglichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt, 1863. 

 Band XIII., Nro. 4. Oct., Nov., Dec. — From the I. R. Geological 

 Society of Austria. 4. (1.) Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 

 Vol. XXIV. Polite Literature, Part 1, 1864. Science, Part 3, 1864. 

 (2.) Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Parts 1-6, Vol. V., 

 1863-64. — From the Academy. 5. Report read by the Astronomer- 

 Royal for Scotland to the Special Meeting of Her Majesty's Government 

 Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Nov. 1864. — 

 From Professor C. Piazzi Smyth. 6. Notes and Queries upon Geological 

 Matters, No. 1 (several copies). — By G. E. Roberts, Esq., F.G.S., &c. — 

 From the Geologists' Association, London. 



A large and very fine adult specimen of the African 

 mandrill baboon, the largest of the dog-faced quadrumana, 

 was sent for exhibition to the Society. It had been pur- 

 chased, and was preserved by Mr Small, George Street, for 

 an interesting local collection — the Macfarlane Museum, 

 Bridge of Allan. 



The following communications were read : — 



I. On the Restoration of Bone. By A. M'Kenzie Edwards, Esq., 

 F.R.C.S.E. 



