1907 - 8 .] 
Meetings of the Society. 
719 
TENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 16th March 1908. 
Dr R. H. Traquair, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Mr J. P. F. Bell, signed the Roll, and was admitted a Fellow of the Society. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. On the Lamellibranch Fauna found in the Millstone Grit of Scotland. By Dr Wheelton 
Hind, F.R.C.S., F.G.S. Communicated by Dr J. Horne, F.R.S. Trans ., yoI. xlvi. pp. 331-359. 
2. The Lamellibranchs from the Silurian Rocks of Girvan. By Dr Wheelton Hind, F.R.C.S., 
F.G.S. Communicated by Dr J. Horne, F.R.S. 
3. On a Test for Continuity. By Dr W. H. Yotjng, F.R.S. Communicated by J. H. 
Maclagan Wedderburn, M.A. pp. 249-258. 
4. The Theory of Hessians in the Historical Order of Development up to 1860. By Dr Thomas 
Muir. pp. 413-432. 
ELEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, 4 th May 1908. 
Professor Crum Brown, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Mr Henry Charles Williamson signed the Roll, and was formally admitted a Fellow of the 
Society. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. On Iodine Concentration Cells. By Principal A. P. Laurie, pp. 382-393. 
2. Sunset and Twilight Curves, and related Phenomena. By D. M. Y. Sommerville. Com- 
municated by Professor Dyson, pp. 311-337. 
3. Preliminary Statement on the Morphology of the Cone of Lycopodium Cernuum , and its 
bearing on the Affinities of Spencerites. By William H. Lang, M.B., D.Sc. , Lecturer in Botany, 
Glasgow University. Communicated by Professor F. 0. Bower, Sc.D., F.R.S.L. & E. ( With 
Lantern Illustrations .) pp. 356-368. 
4. On the Origin of the Adaxially Curved Leaf-trace in the Filicales. By D. T. Gwynne- 
Vaughan, M.A., and R. Kidston, LL.D., F.R.S.L. & E. ( With Lantern Illustrations.) pp. 
433-436. 
5. On a New Species of Dineuron and of Botryopteris, from Pettycur, Fife. By R. Kidston, 
L.L.D., F.R.S.L. & E. ( With Lantern Illustrations.) Trans., vol. xlvi. pp. 361-364. 
6. The Inca Bone : Its Homology and Nomenclature. By Dr W. Ramsay Smith, pp. 586-594. 
FIRST SPECIAL MEETING. 
Moitday, 11 th May 1908. 
Dr R. H. Traquair, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
At the request of the Council, Professor F. O. Bower, F.R.S., gave an Address on : — 
The Origin of a Land Flora. ( With Lantern Illustrations . ) 
TWELFTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, 18 th May 1908. 
Professor Andrew Gray, LL.D., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Obituary Notice of the Right Hon. Lord Kelvin. By the Chairman. 
2. On the Cohesion of Steel, and on the Relation between the Yield Points in Tension and in 
Compression. By G. H. Gulliver, B. Sc. pp. 374-381. 
3. The Preparation of a Glass to Conduct Electricity. By Charles E. S. Phillips, Esq. 
( With Lantern Illustrations.) pp. 627-642. 
The following Candidates for Fellowship were balloted for, and declared duly elected Fellows 
of the Society: — George Freeland Barbour Simpson, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., F.R.C.S.E., and 
Devendra Nath Mallik, B.A. (Cantab.), B.Sc. (Lond.). 
