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A Ballot was held for the election of Dr Alexander Buchan, 
who had been nominated by the Council to succeed Sir John 
Murray as the Society’s Representative on the Heriot-Watt 
Trust, and Dr Buchan was duly elected. 
THIRD ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 3rd December 1900 . 
The Rev. Professor Duns, D.D., Yice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. The True Csecal Apex, or the Vermiform Appendix — its Minute 
and Comparative Anatomy. By Richard J. A. Berry, M.D. ( With 
Lantern Illustrations.) 
2. Some Identities connected with Alternants, and with Elliptic 
Functions. By Thomas Muir, LL.D. Trans, vol. 40, pp. 187-201, 
3. A Peculiar Set of Linear Equations. By the Same. pp. 248-260. 
Mr Alan W. C. Menzies and Professor J. B. Bradbury were 
balloted for, and declared duly elected Fellows of the Society. 
FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , II th December 1900 . 
The Right Hon. Lord Kelvin, G.C.V.O., President, in the Chair. 
Mr Alan W. C. Menzies was admitted a Fellow of the Society. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. On the Transmission of Force. By the President. 
2. Note on Dr Muir’s paper “ On a Peculiar Set of Linear Equations.” 
By C. Tweedie, Esq., M.A. pp. 261-263. 
3. A Suggested Solar Oscillation, with some of its possible Astronomical 
and Meteorological consequences ; together with a Generalisation as to 
the Constitution of Matter and the Cause of Gravitation. By Professor 
J. T. Morrison. 
