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Proceedings of the Koyal Society of Edinburgh. 
The sum of £300 placed in the hands of the Council during the War to expend on scientific 
experiments for War purposes has now been fully expended, the balance of fully £75 (including 
interest) having been with the donor’s consent used to meet the expenses of publication of the 
paper by Professor J. C. Gray and Captain J. Gray on Gyrostatic Stabilisers in Aeroplanes. 
The attention of the Fellows is drawn to the rearrangement of the portraits in the Reception 
Room and the East Staircase. The portraits of Sir Walter Scott and Sir David Brewster have 
been placed in the Reception Room along with the others which were previously there. 
The Treasurer, in submitting his Report for the year, compared the Income and Expenditure 
with those of the previous year, and stated that the deficit on the year’s working (£408, 11s. l|d.), 
largely due to an increase in the amount published, was met from the Special Subscription Fund. 
Sir Edward Sharpey Schafer moved the adoption of the Reports, and the reappointment of 
Messrs Lindsay, Jamieson & Haldanic, C.A. , as auditors of the accounts for the ensuing Session. 
This was unanimously agreed to. 
The Scrutineers reported that the Ballot Papers were in order, and that the following Office- 
Bearers and Members of Council had been elected : — 
Professor Frederick 0. Bower, M.A., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., President. 
Principal Sir James Alfred Ewing, K.C, B., M.A.,' 
D.Sc., LL.D., M.Inst.C.E., F.R.S., 
Professor John Walter Gregory, D.Sc., F.R.S., 
Major-General W. B. Bannerman, C.S.I., I.M.k, 
M.D., D.Sc., 
W. A. Tait, D.Sc., M.Inst.C.E., 
Principal J. C. Irvine, C.B.E., Ph.D., D.Sc., LL.D., 
F.R.S., 
The Rt. Hon. Lord Salvesen, P.C., K.C. , 
Cargill G. Knott, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., General Secretary. 
Professor J. H. Ashworth, D.Sc., F.R.S., 
Professor R. A. Sampson, M.A. , D.Sc. 
F.R.S. 
James Currie, M.A., LL.D., Treasurer. 
A. Crichton Mitchell, D.Sc., Hon. D.Sc. (Geneva), Curator of Library and Museum. 
Vice-Presidents. 
i Secretaries to Ordinary 
j Meetings. 
ORDINARY MEMBERS OF COUNCIL. 
Professor Francis Gibson Baily, M.A., 
M.Inst.E.E. 
Robert Campbell, M.A., D.Sc., F.G.S. 
Professor J. Arthur Thomson, M.A., LL.D. 
Herbert Stanley Allen, M.A., D.Sc. 
Sir Robert Blyth Greig, M.C., LL.D., F.Z.S. 
James Ritchie, M.A., D.Sc. 
Professor Ernest Maclagan Wedderburn, 
M.A., LL.B., W.S., D.Sc. 
Professor Thomas FI. Bryce, M.A., M.D., 
F.R.S. 
Professor James Young Simpson, M.A., D.Sc.- 
Professor D’Arcy W. Thompson, C.B., D.Litt., 
F.R.S. 
Professor Sir James Walker, D.Sc., Ph.D., 
LL.D., F.R.S. 
Professor Edmund Taylor Whittaker, 
Sc.D., F.R.S. 
SOCIETY’S REPRESENTATIVE ON GEORGE HERIOT’S TRUST. 
W. A. Tait, D.Sc., M.Inst.C.E. 
The Chairman, in the name of the Society, thanked the Scrutineers for their services. 
The President then delivered an Address “On the Primitive Spindle as a Fundamental 
Feature in the Embryology of Plants.” 
