1916 - 17 .] 
Meetings of the Society. 
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FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , December 18, 1916. 
John Horne, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
The following alterations in the Rules were, on the motion of Dr Sutherland Black, seconded 
by Professor James Walker, F. H.S., agreed to by the Society : — 
“ In order to abolish the distinction between Resident and Non-Resident Fellows, the words 
‘Resident in Scotland’ in Rule YI shall be deleted, and Rule YII shall be wholly deleted. As 
a consequence the present Rules No. VIII-XXIX will become Nos. VII-XXVIII.” 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. The Family Budgets and Dietaries of Forty Labouring Class Families in War Time. By 
Miss Margaret Ferguson. Communicated by Professor Noel Paton. 
2. The Hurlet Sequence in the East of Scotland. By Peter MacNair, F.G.S. (With 
Lantern Illustrations .) 
FIFTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , January 22, 1917. 
John Horne, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S. , F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read 
1. Obituary Notice of Professor Gwynne- Vaughan. By Professor F. 0. Bower, F.R.S. 
2. Obituary Notices of Deceased Fellows during the Session 1915-16. By The General 
Secretary. 
3. On some Causes of the Formation of Anticyclonic Stratus, as observed from Aeroplanes. 
By Lieut. C. K. M. Douglas. Communicated by M. M'Callum Fairgrieye, M.A. 
4. The Structure, Bionomics, and Forest Importance of Myelophilus minor. By Walter 
Ritchie, B.Sc. Communicated by Dr R. Stewart MacDougall. ( With Lantern Illustrations .) 
SIXTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , February 5, 1917. 
John Horne, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S,, F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read 
1. The Gametophyte Generation of the Psilotacete. By Professor A. A. Lawson. ( With 
Lantern Illustrations . ) 
2. The Anatomy and Affinity of Stromatopteris moniliformis, Mett. By J. M. Thompson, M.A., 
B.Sc. ( With Lantern Illustrations .) 
3. Preliminary Note on the Peculiarities of the Tides round Western Australia. By Professor 
and Mrs A. D. Ross. 
SEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, February 19, 1917. 
Professor E. A. Schafer, LL.D., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. The Bone Cave in the Valley of Allt nan Uamh (Burn of the Caves), near Inchnadamff, 
Assynt, Sutherlandshire. By Dr Peach, F.R.S., and Dr Horne, F.R.S. With Notes on the 
Bones found in the Cave, by E. T. Newton, F.R.S. ( With Lantern Illustrations.) 
2. The Adsorption of Sulphur Dioxide by Charcoal at -10°C. By A. M. Williams, M.A., 
B.Sc. Communicated by Professor James Walker, F.R.S. 
