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EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 20 th March 1899. 
Professor Copeland, Vice-President, in tHe Chair. 
Mr David Brown was admitted a Fellow of the Society. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1 . On the Temperature over the Floor of the Ocean, and the Maximum 
and Minimum Temperature of the Surface of the Ocean. By Sir John 
Murray, K.C.B. 
2. Contributions to the Theory of Heredity, II. Intercrossing and 
Variation. By Professor J. Cossar Ewart, F.R.S. 
3. On a Development of a Determinant of the mn th order. By 
Thomas Muir, LL.D. Trans., xxxix. pp. 223-228. 
NINTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 3rd April 1899. 
The Rev. Professor Duns, D.D., in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read. 
1. On the Restoration of Co-ordinated Movements after Nerve Section. 
By Robert Kennedy, M.A., B.Sc., M.D. Glasgow. Communicated by 
Professor M‘Kendrick. (With Lantern Illustrations.) Trans., xxxix. 
pp. 685-702. (Abstract) pp. 636-640. 
2. On the Rimes in the Authentic Poems of William Dunbar. By 
Henry Bellyse Baildon, M.A. Cantab. Trans., xxxix. pp. 629-664. 
Mr James Taylor was balloted for, and declared duly elected a 
Fellow of the Society. 
TENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, 1st May 1899. 
Professor Copeland, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. On the Application of Force within a limited space required to pro. 
duce Spherical Solitary Waves, or trains of Waves, of both or either 
Species, equivoluminal and ir rotational, in an Elastic Solid. By the 
Right Hon. Lord Kelvin, G.C.V.O., President. 
