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ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 
SESSION 1917-18. 
Parti] VOL. XXXVIII. [Pp. 1-96 
CONTENTS. 
NO. 
I. Recent Developments of the Committee of the Privy Council 
for Scientific and Industrial Research. Address by John 
Horne, LL.D., F.R.S., ..... 
(. Issued separately January 30, 1918.) 
II. Wm. J. Beaton, Second Lieutenant Machine Gun Company, 
Assistant Librarian, R.S.E. By The General Secretary, 9 
III. Notices of Fellows, Honorary and Ordinary, recently deceased. 
By The General Secretary, . . . .10 
IV. Period of Survival of the Shore-Crab ( Carcinus mcenas) in 
Distilled Water. By Robert K. S. Lim. (From the Labora- 
tory of Physiology, Edinburgh University.) Communicated 
by Professor Sir E. A. Schafer, F.R.S., . . .14 
(. Issued separately February 28, 1918.) 
V. Thermodynamics of Adsorption. By A. M. Williams, M.A., 
B.Se., 1851 Exhibition Scholar of the University of Edin- 
burgh, 1911-14. Communicated by Professor James 
Walker, F.R.S., , . . . . .23 
{Issued separately February 28, 1918.) 
VI. A Further Study of the Diets of Labouring Class Families in 
Glasgow in War Time. By Margaret I. H. Ferguson, 
from the Department of Physiology, University of Glasgow. 
Communicated by Professor D. Noel Paton, . . 40 
{Issued separately February 28, 1918.) 
[ Continued on page iv of Cover. 
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