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or Electric Oscillations superposed upon Cyclic Magnetisation in Iron. By James Russell, Esq. 
( With Lantern Illustrations . ) 
3. Scottish Rotifers collected by the Lake Survey. By James Murray, Esq. Trans., vol. 
xlvi. pp. 189-201. 
THIRD ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, 2nd December 1907. 
Dr Robert Munro, Yice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read 
1 . The Body Temperature of Fishes and other Marine Animals. By Sutherland Simpson, 
M.D., D.Sc. Communicated by Professor Schafer, F. R. S. pp. 66-84. 
2. Seismic Radiations through the Earth. By C. G. Knott, D.Sc. pp. 217-230. 
3. The Theory of Skew Determinants in the Historical Order of Development up to 1865. By 
Thomas Muir, LL.D. pp. 303-310. 
FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, 1 Qth December 1907. 
Dr R. H. Traquair, F.R.S., Yice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. The Medusae of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. By Edward T. Browne, 
Zoological Research Laboratory, University College, London. Communicated by Dr W. S. Bruce. 
Trans., vol. xlvi. pp. 233-251. 
2. The Method of extracting Yenom from Poisonous Snakes in India. By Lieut. -Colonel W. B. 
Bannerman, M.D. , B.Sc., I.M.S., Director, Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory, Parel, Bombay. 
( With Lantern Illustrations . ) 
The following Candidates for Fellowship were balloted for, and declared duly elected Fellows of 
the Society : — Lieut. -Colonel John Campbell and Walter Aubrey Kidd, M.D., F.Z.S. 
FIFTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, Qth January 1908. 
Professor Crum Brown, LL.D., F.R.S., Yice-President, in the Chair. 
Mr John Kemp, M. A., signed the Roll, and was duly admitted a Fellow of the Society. 
The Chairman made the following reference to the death of the President of the Society : — 
We meet here to-night for the first time since the death of Lord Kelvin. 
This is not the time to enter into an enumeration or a criticism of what he did. Our thoughts 
now are of the loss which we have sustained. But it is impossible in our mind to separate the man 
from his work. For the transparent truthfulness, the simplicity and straightforwardness, the 
absence of the least trace of affectation or trick, which contributed so much to the charm of his 
manner, felt by everyone who came, even in the slightest and most transient way, into relation 
with him, are to be seen in all that he did. It was his love of truth and his sympathy with nature 
that led him in all his investigations directly to the root of the matter, and made him so zealous 
and successful in his searches for the essential principles underlying the phenomena of nature. And 
when a truly essential new view was obtained, by himself or by another, of the way in which nature 
works, he rejoiced greatly and called on his friends to rejoice with him. Nature was to him very 
real, and no demonstration seemed to him quite satisfactory until it had been “realised.” This, 
and his sympathy with men and with their work, gave everything to him a practical aspect. And 
so in almost every direction in which he worked he devised working models and instruments of 
precision. Some of these are known only to specialists, and by them used and valued ; but every- 
body has heard of his compass and of his sounding apparatus, and knows something of the enormous 
benefits he has conferred on navigation. 
It was not only in pure and applied science that he was interested ; everything that affects the 
life of the people, education, politics, religion, occupied his thoughts, and on all subjects which he 
had seriously considered he had definite opinions. While he would, on occasion, defend with zeal 
and energy what he believed to be the truth, he was always perfectly fair to his opponents, as he 
was always courteous to everybody. 
