1180 Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinburgh. [sess. 
FIRST ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 7th November .1904. 
The Hon. Lord M £ Laren, LL.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. On Professor Seeliger’s Theory of Temporary Stars. By Dr J. 
Halm, Assistant Astronomer, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. Com- 
municated by the Astronomer-Royal for Scotland, pp. 513-552. 
2. The Sum of the Signed Primary Minors of a Determinant. By 
Dr Thomas Muir. pp. 372-382. 
3. Continuants resolvable into Linear Factors. By the Same. 'Trans., 
vol. 41, pp. 343-358. 
4. The Three-line Determinants of a Six-by-Three Array. By the 
Same. pp. 364-371. 
SECOND ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, 21 st November 1904. 
The Hon. Lord McLaren, LL.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. A Laboratory Apparatus for Measuring the Lateral Strains in 
Tension and Compression Members, with some Applications to the 
Measurement of the Elastic Constants of Metals. By Professor E. G. 
Coker, M.A., D.Sc. pp. 452-457. 
2. A Possible Explanation of the Formation of the Moon. By 
George Romanes, Esq., C.E. Communicated by Dr C. G. Knott. 
( With Lantern Illustrations.) pp. 471-479. 
Mr George Alexander Carse, Mr Wm. Anderson, F.G.S., and 
Dr Jacob E. Halm were balloted for, and declared duly elected 
Fellows of the Society. 
THIRD ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, 5th December 1904. 
Dr R. H. Traquair, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Chairman intimated to the Society that the following had 
been proposed by the Council for Ballot on 9th January 1905 : — 
As British Honorary Fellows. 
Alfred Newton, M.A., F.R.S., Professor of Zoology and Com- 
parative Anatomy in the University of Cambridge. 
