CONTENTS. 
Election of Office-Bearers, . . . . - • ' 
Chairman’s Opening Address, ..... 
Note on a Tlieorem regarding a Series of Convergents to the 
Roots of a Number. By Thomas Muir, LL.D., . 
A Preliminary Communication on the Electrical Resistance of 
Various Urines. By Dawson Turner, M.D., F.R.C.P. Edin., 
M.R.C.P. London, ....... 
Note on a Problem of Elimination connected with Glissettes of an 
Ellipse or Hyperbola. By Thomas Muir, LL.D., 
On the Foundations of the Kinetic Theory of Gases. Y. By 
Professor Tait, ....... 
The Lesser Rorqual {Balcenoptera rostrata) in the Scottish Seas, 
with Observations on its Anatomy. By Professor Sir Win. 
Turner, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., 
The Tactics adopted by certain Birds when Flying in the Wind. 
By Mr R. W. Western. (With a Plate), .... 
Note on Certain Remarkable Volume Effects of Magnetisation. 
By Professor Cargill G. Knott, D.Sc., and A. Shand, Esq., 
On the Eliminant of the Equations of the Ellipse-Glissette. By 
the Hon. Lord M‘Laren, ...... 
Ptomaines extracted from Urine in certain Infectious Diseases. 
By Dr A. B. Griffiths, F.R.S.E., F.C.S., e^c.. 
On a Crystalline Globulin occurring in Human Urine. By D. 
Noel Patou, ....... 
On the Blood of the Invertebrata. By A. B. Griffiths, Ph.D., 
F.R.S.E., F.C.S., &C-, 
Note on Dr Muir’s Solution of Sylvester’s Elimination Problem. 
By Professor Tait, ....... 
Note on the Thermal Effect of Pressure on AVater. By Professor 
Tait, ........ 
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