1896-97.] 
Meetings of the Society. 
511 
FIRST ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday ,• 7th December 1896. 
Professor M‘Kendrick, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Vice-President, in 
the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Opening Address by the Chairman : — 
(a) General, pp. 170-182. 
(b) Remarks on the Structural and Physiological Nervous Unit. 
pp. 182-189. 
(c) Experiments on the Rhythmic Stimulation of Sensory Nerves of 
the Skin. pp. 189-194. 
(d) Demonstration of the Improved Phonograph Recorder, and Re- 
marks on the Curves thereby obtained, pp. 194-206. 
2. On the Reproduction of some Marine Diatoms. By Mr G. R. M. 
Murray, British Museum, pp. 207-219. 
3. The Eliminant of a set of Quaternary Quadrics. By Dr Thomas 
Muir. pp. 328-341. 
4. On the Resolution of Circulants into Rational Factors. By Dr 
Thomas Muir. pp. 369-382. 
5. On the Eliminant of f(x) = 0, /(^) = 0. By Dr Thomas Mum. 
pp. 360-368. 
6. On the so-called “ Hypoiodite of Magnesium.” By Professor James 
Walker and Sydney A. Kay, B.Sc., University College, Dundee, 
pp. 235-248. 
Mr Robert Caird, Mr James Bell Dobbie, and Mr William 
Sanderson were balloted for and declared duly elected Fellows of 
the Society. 
SECOND ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 21s7 Dec&frib&r 1896. 
The Right Hon. Lord Kelvin, LL.D., F.R.S., President, 
in the Chair. 
Mr James Bell Dobbie and Mr William Sanderson were 
admitted Fellows of the Society. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. On Atomic Configurations in Molecules of Gases, according to 
Boscovich. By the President. 
