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SIXTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 23rd January 1911, at 4.30 p.m. 
Professor J. C. Ewart, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Note on an Entoproctan Polyzoon ( Barentsia benedeni) new to the British Fauna, with 
remarks on Related Species. By James Ritchie, M.A., B.Sc. Communicated by Dr R. H. 
Traquair, F.R.S. Trans., vol. xlvii. pp. 835-848. 
2. The Topography of the Cortex Cerebri of the Guinea-pig. By Williamina Abel, M.D. 
Communicated by Professor D. Noel Paton. Proc., vol. xxxi. pp. 397-415. 
3. A Study of Artificial Pyrexia. By Mr Adam Black. Communicated by Professor D. Noel 
Paton. Proc., vol. xxxi. pp. 333-341. 
4. The Independence of the Peripheral Sensory Neurone in view of the Results of Experimental 
Section of the Optic Nerve in the Rabbit. By Janie Hamilton MTlroy, M.A., B.Sc., M.B. 
Communicated by Professor D. Noel Paton. ( Lantern Demonstration.) Proc., vol. xxxi. pp. 
349-351. 
The following Gentlemen signed the Roll and were duly admitted Fellows of the Society: — 
Professor James MacKinnon, William Inglis Clark, D.Sc., and Ruric Whitehead Wrigley 
B. A. 
SEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, 6th February 1911, at 4.30 p.m. 
Dr James Burgess, C.I.E., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. On Fourier’s Repeated Integral. By Dr W. H. Young. Communicated by Professor G. A. 
Gibson. Proc., vol. xxxi. pp. 559-586. 
2. On Sommerfeld’s Form of Fourier’s Repeated Integral. By Dr W. H. Young. Com- 
municated by Professor G. A. Gibson. Proc., vol. xxxi. pp. 587-603. 
3. The Isopiestic Expansibility of Water at High Temperatures and Pressures. By W. Watson, 
M.A., B.Sc. Communicated by Professor J. G. MacGregor. (Lantern.) Proc., vol. xxxi. pp. 
456-477. 
4. An Investigation into the Effects of Errors in Surveying. By Henry Briggs, B.Sc. 
Communicated by Principal A. P. Laurie. (Lantern.) Trans., vol. xlvii. pp. 849-877. 
EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, 20 th February 1911, at 4.30 p.m. 
Dr John Horne, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. On the Determination of Small Degrees of Enzymatic Peptolysis. By Dorothy Court, 
B.Sc. Communicated by Dr E. Westergaard. Proc., vol. xxxi. pp. 342-348. 
2. Concerning the New Genus of Iron Bacteria, “ Spirophyllum ferrugineum” (Ellis). By 
Dr David Ellis. Proc., vol. xxxi. pp. 499-504. 
3. On the Temperature Coefficient of Concentration Cells, in which the same Salt is dissolved 
in two Different Solvents. By Principal A. P. Laurie. Proc., vol. xxxi. pp. 375-396. 
The following Candidates for Fellowship were Balloted for and declared duly elected : — James 
Watt, W.S., F.F.A., James Hartley Ashworth, D.Sc., Reginald John Gladstone, M.D., 
James Andrew Gunn, M.A., M.D., John Arnold Fleming, F.C.S., Stephen Smith, B.Sc., 
Sutherland Simpson, M.D., Rev. Lauchlan M‘Lean Watt, B.D., and Edalji Manekji 
Modi, F.C.S. 
NINTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, 6tli March 1911, at 8 p.m . 
Professor A. Crum Brown, LL.D., F. R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. On the Accuracy attainable with a Modified Form of Atwood’s Machine. By J. P. Dalton, 
M.A., B.Sc. Proc., vol. xxxi. pp. 416-423, 
