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Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinhurgh. [sess. 
Monday, Wi May 1895. 
Professor Sir William Turner, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. On Drops. By J. Ballantyne Hanna y. P. xx. 437. 
2. Further Note on a Problem of Sylvester’s in Elimination. By 
Thomas Muik, LL.D. P. xx. 371. 
3. On the Results of some Experiments with Potash Manures. By 
R. Patrick Wright, F.H.A.S., West of Scotland Technical College. 
Communicated by Dr A. P. Aitken. 
4. On the Conditions for a Kink in the Path of a Projectile. By 
Professor Tait. 
5. Systems of Plane Curves whose Orthogonals form a similar System. 
By Professor Tait. P. xx. 497. 
Professor Oliver was admitted a Fellow of the Society. 
The following Names proposed hy the Council were balloted for, 
and these were elected : — 
As British Honorary Fellotvs. 
Sir J. William Dawson, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S., late Principal of 
M‘Gill University, Montreal. 
Albert C. L. G. Gunther, Ph.D., F.R.S., Zoological Department in 
the British Museum, London. 
John Russell Hind, LL.D., F.R.S., Corresponding Member of the 
Institute of France. 
Sir Charles Todd, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., Government Astronomer, 
Adelaide, South Australia. 
As Foreign Honorary Fellows. 
Ludwig Boltzmann, Professor of Physics in the University of 
Vienna. 
Gabriel Auguste Daubr:^e, of the Institute of France. 
EuEUTHkRE - Elie - Nicolas Mascart, Professor of Physics and 
Meteorology, Paris. 
Carl Menger, Professor of Political Economy in the University of 
Vienna. 
Max von Pettenkofer, Professor of Hygiene in the University of 
Munich. 
Jules Henri Poincar^ of the Institute of France. 
