716 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [Sess. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ORDINARY MEETINGS, 
Session 1907-1908. 
FIRST ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, Uh November 1907. 
Dr R. H. Traquair, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following gentlemen signed the Roll, and were formally admitted Fellows of the Society : — 
Mr Muhammad Bad he and Mr John Thomson Pearce, B.A., B.Sc. 
The Chairman read a Statement regarding the gift by the Misses Sang to the Nation of the 
late Dr Sang’s MS. Logarithmic and Mathematical Tables, which are now, by deed of gift, in the 
custody of the Society. {See pp. 183-196.) 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. A Note on the Roman Numerals. By James A. S. Barrett, M.A. Communicated by 
J. Sutherland Black, M.A., LL.D. pp. 161-182. 
2. Brachydactyly : An Account of a number of Individuals, all related to one another by 
descent, who show a Congenital Abnormality of the Hands and Feet, consisting in an Abortive 
Middle Phalanx, with other peculiarities, together with references to their normal relatives. By 
H. Drinkwater, M.D., C.M. (Edin.), M.R.C.S. (Lond.). Communicated by Professor D. J. 
Cunningham, F.R.S. {With Lantern Illustrations.) pp. 35-57. 
, 3. Notolepis Coatsi, Poisson pelagique nouveau recueilli par l’Expedition Antarctique Nationale 
Ecossaise. Note preliminaire, par Louis Dollo, Conservateur au Musee royal d’Histoire naturelle 
a Bruxelles. Presentee par M. R. H. Traquair, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. pp. 58-65. 
4. The Theory of Compound Determinants in the Historical Order of Development up to 1860. 
By Thomas Muir, LL. D. pp. 197-209. 
5. The Product of the Primary Minors of an n-bj-{n + l) Array. By the Same. pp. 210-216. 
The following gentlemen, nominated for Honorary Fellowships, were balloted for and declared 
duly elected 
As British Honorary Fellows. 
Sir Alexander B. W. Kennedy, LL.D., F.R.S., Pres. Inst. C.E. 
Sir E. Ray Lankester, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., Director of the Natural History Departments, 
British Museum. 
Sir James A. H. Murray, LL.D., D.C.L., Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. 
Charles S. Sherrington, M.A., M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Holt Professor of Physiology in the 
University of Liverpool. 
As Foreign Honorary Fellows. 
Emil Fischer, Professor of Chemistry, University of Berlin. 
George William Hill, Ph.D., Sc. I)., LL.D. West Nyack, New York. 
Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch, Pres, of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, 
Chari ottenburg. 
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Professor of Zoology, Columbia University, and Curator of the 
Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology, American Museum of Natural History. 
Iwan P. Pawlov, Professor of Physiology, Military Medical Academy, St Petersburg. 
Gustaf Retzius, formerly Professor of Anatomy, Stockholm. 
Augusto Righi, Professor of Physics in the University of Bologna. 
Louis Joseph Troost, Member of the Institute of France, formerly Professor of Chemistry at the 
Sorbonne, Paris. 
SECOND ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, 18 th November 1907. 
Professor A. Gray, LL.D., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Mr James Archibald, M.A., signed the Roll, and was duly admitted a Fellow of the Society. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. The Effect of Load and Vibrations upon Magnetism in Nickel. By James Russell, Esq. 
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2. The Shift of the Neutral Points due to Variation of the Intensity of Mechanical Vibrations 
