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We ask permission also to offer to Her Gracious Majesty the 
Queen Consort our respectful good wishes on her accession to the 
great position for which she is so eminently qualified. 
January 2&th, 1901. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Obituary Notice of His Excellency Dr Gunning. By Professor 
Duns, D.D., Vice-President, pp. 489-497. 
2. Solar Radiation and Earth Temperatures. Part II. By C. G. 
Knott, D.Sc. pp. 296-311. 
EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 1 Sth February 1901. 
Professor Geikie, LL.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Thermo-electric Properties of Solid Mercury. By Dr W. Peddie 
and the late Mr A. B. Shand. p. 422. 
2. Observations of the Edinburgh Rock Thermometers. By Thomas 
Heath, Esq., B.A. Trans ., vol, 40, pp. 157-186. 
NINTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 4 th March 1901. 
Sir Arthur Mitchell, K.C.B., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Mr James Young Simpson was admitted a Eellow of the Society. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. The Sea- weed Viva latissima, and its relation to the Pollution 
of Sea-water by Sewage. By Professor Letts and Mr John Hawthorne, 
B.A., Queen’s College, Belfast, pp. 268-294. 
PROC. ROY. SOC. EDIN. — VOL. XXIII. 2 G 
In the name of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 
(Signed) Kelvin, President. 
John M‘Laren, Acting Secretary. 
