274 Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinhurgh. [sess. 
Monday, ith April 1892. 
Sir Arthur Mitchell, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Chairman, in accordance with the Laws, announced (as 
follows), the names of proposed new Foreign and British Honorary 
Fellows, to be submitted for Ballot at the Second Meeting in 
May : — ^ 
Foreign Honorary Fellows : — 
Gustav Wiedemann, Leipzig. 
William Dwight Whitney, Yale College. 
Emile Dubois-Keymond, Berlin. 
Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau, Paris. 
British Honorary Fellows — 
David Gill, LL.D., F.R.S., Cape of Good Hope. 
Colonel Alexander Boss Clarke, C.B., F.K.S. 
Sir James Paget, Bart., LL.D. 
The Eight Eev. W. Stubbs, D.D., LL.D., Lord Bishop of Oxford. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. A Problem of Sylvester’s in Elimination. By Thomas Muir, 
LL.D. 
2. Note on Professor Cayley’s Proof that a Triangle and its Eeciprocal 
are in Perspective. By the Same. 
3. On the most recent Phases of Greek Literary Style. By Emeritus 
Professor Blackie. T. xxxvii. 107. 
4. A Contribution to the Anatomy of Sutroa. By F. E. Beddard, 
M.A. T. xxxvii. 195. 
The following Candidates for Fellowships were balloted for, and 
declared duly elected Fellows of the Society : — 
Patrick Neill Fraser. 
David Paulin. 
Monday, 2nd May 1892. 
Sir Douglas Maclagan, M.D., President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read: — 
1. Note on Dr Muir’s Solution of Sylvester’s Elimination Problem. 
By Professor Tait. P. xix. 131. 
2. On Borolanite — an Igneous Kock intrusive in the Cambrian 
Limestone of Assynt, Sutherlandshire, and the Torridon Sandstone 
of Eoss-shire. By J. Horne and J. J. H. Teall, F.E.S., of the 
Geological Survey. T. xxxvii. 163. 
