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FOURTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , VI th June 1901. 
Professor Sir Wm. Turner, K.C.R., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. On In-breeding. By Professor J. Cossar Ewart, F.R.S. 
2. On Hair in the Equidae. By F. H. A. Marshall, Esq., B.A. 
pp. 375-390. 
FIFTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 1st July 1901. 
Professor Chrystal, LL.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Dr W. Brodie Brodie was admitted a Fellow of the Society. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Note on a Proposition given by Jacobi in his “ De determinantibus 
functionalibus.” By Thomas Muir, Esq., LL.D. pp. 423-427. 
2. On the Distribution of Fossil Fishes in the Carboniferous Rocks of 
the Edinburgh District. By Dr R. H. Traquair, F.R.S. 
3. The Determination of Sex in Animal Development. By J. Beard, 
D.Sc. Communicated by Prof. Cossar Ewart, F.R.S. 
Mr James Goodwillie, the Rev. G. A. Frank Knight, Dr O. 
St John Moses, and Mr David Paterson were balloted for, and 
declared duly elected Fellows of the Society. 
SIXTEENTH AND LAST ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 15^ July 1901. 
The Rev. Professor Flint, D.D., in the Chair. 
The Chairman referred in a few appropriate words to the great 
loss which the Society had sustained by the death of Professor 
Tait. 
The Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize for 1896-1900 was presented 
