704 Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinburgh. [sess. 
SIXTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 21 st February 1898. 
The Right Hon. Lord Kelvin, President, in the Chair. 
The Hon. John Abercromby and Mr John A. Purves were 
admitted Fellows of the Society. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. On the Thermodynamics of Volta- contact-electricity of Metals. 
By the Right Hon. Lord Kelvin, pp. 118-125. 
2. The Cones of Equal Angular Displacement in a Homogeneous 
Strain. By Professor Tait. pp. 163, 164. 
3. On Bipolarity in the Distribution of Marine Organisms. By Dr 
John Murray, F.R.S. ( With Lantern Illustrations.) 
SEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 1th March 1898. 
Dr Burgess in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Heat of Combination of Metals in the Formation of Alloys. By 
Alexander Galt, B.Sc. pp. 137-149. 
2. Note on a Modified Form of the Rutherford Microtome. By 
David Fraser Harris, B.Sc., M.D. 
3. On the Characteristics of Lighthouse Apparatus. By J. A. Purves, 
B.Sc. 
4. On the Nature of “Palladium Hydrogen.” By John Shields, 
D.Sc., Ph.D. Communicated by Professor Crum Brown, pp. 169-186. 
Dr John Glaister, Mr Francis Chalmers Crawford, Dr 
George Newman, Mr David Brown, Mr W. Allan Carter, Mr 
Alexander Veitch Lothian, and Mr S. C. Mahal anobis were 
balloted for, and declared duly elected Fellows of the Society. 
EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 21 st March 1898. 
The Right Hon. Lord Kelvin, President, in the Chair. 
Mr James Campbell Irons, Dr John Glaister, Mr F. C. 
Crawford, and Mr W. Allan Carter were admitted Fellows of 
the Society. 
