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EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, March 5, 1917. 
Dr Jolm Horne, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
The Annual Election of Fellows took place. The following were elected: — George Barnhill 
Burnside, Brysson Cunningham, T. Cuthbert Day, Robert W. Dron, Alexander 
Gibson, John Harrison, James Colquhoun Irvine, Andrew King, Sir Donald Macalister, 
Hector Copland Macpherson, Louis William Gunther Malcolm, A. Ernest Maylard 
George Fowlie Merson, Frederick Phillips, Henry Harold Scott, Sir George Adam 
Smith, John Tait, William White Taylor, John M‘Lean Thompson, Wallace Thorney- 
croft, Donald Francis Tovey. 
The following Communication was read : — 
Darwinism and Human Civilisation, with special reference to German Military “Kultur.” 
By Dr Robert Munro. 
NINTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, March 19, 1917. 
Dr John Horne, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. On some Nuclei of Cloudy Condensation. Part III. By Dr John Aitken, F.R.S. 
( With Lantern Illustrations. ) 
2. Note on the Salmon of the River Lochy as shown by a Collection of Scales taken in 1916. 
By W. L. Calderwood, Esq. 
Mr John Harrison, J.P., Dr John Tait, Professor Donald F. Tovey, and Professor C. G. 
Barkla signed the Roll, and were duly admitted Fellows of the Society. 
TENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, May 7, 1917. 
Dr John Horne, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. The Arithmetical Mean and the “Middle” Value of certain Meteorological Observations. 
By Professor L. Becker, Ph. D. 
2. Phycomycetous Fungi from the Lower Coal Measures. By Dr David Ellis. 
3. Experiments and Observations on Crustacea. Parts IV and V. By Dr J. Tait. 
Sir Donald Macalister, G. F. Merson, and Dr W. W. Taylor signed the Roll, and were 
duly admitted Fellows of the Society. 
Dr John Aitken’s Meteorological Papers. 
Owing to the steady demand for Dr Aitken’s well-known Papers on Dust, Fogs, and Clouds, 
and on Dew, published in the Society’s Transactions, Vols. XXX and XXXIII (1880 and 1887), 
the Parts containing these Papers have now been almost exhausted. Under these circumstances 
the Council felt it their duty to reprint the two Papers and issue them as one pamphlet. The 
Reprint may be obtained through the Society’s Publishers, Robert Grant & Son, 107 Princes Street, 
price seven shillings and sixpence. 
ELEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , May 21, 1917. 
Dr John Horne, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Observations on the Blood in Gas Poisoning. By James Miller, M.D., Capt. R.A.M.C.(T.), 
and Harry Rainy, M.D., F.R.C.P.E. 
2. The Chermes of Spruce and Larch and their relation to Forestry. By H. M. Steven, B.Sc. 
Communicated by Dr R. Stewart MacDougall. 
3. The Square Roots of a Linear Vector Function. By Frank L. Hitchcock. Communicated 
by the General Secretary. 
