PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 
vol. iv. 1860-61. No. 55. 
Monday , 4 th March 1861. 
Professor CHRISTISON, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read 
1. Memoir of the late Rev. Dr John Fleming. By Alexander 
Bryson, Esq. 
2. On Zoological Classification, and the Parallelism of the 
Mammal, Marsupial, and Ornithic Classes. By Professor 
Macdonald. 
The following Gentlemen were admitted as Fellows : — 
Archibald Geikie, F.G.S. 
William Handyside, Esq. 
The following Donations to the Library were announced : — 
Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society. January 1861. — 
From the Society . 
The Canadian Journal. January 1861. — From the Canadian In- 
stitute. 
Recherches experimentales sur Pelectricite des metaux. Par 
A. T. Kupffer. Tome I. St Petersbourg, 1860. 4to. — 
From the Academy of St Petersburg. 
Annalen der koniglichen Sternwarte bei Miinchen. Band XII. — 
From the Royal Observatory of Munich. 
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