1904-5.] Meetings of the Society. 1191 
THIRD SPECIAL MEETING. 
Wednesday , 1 4dh June 1905. 
Sir John Murray, Iv.C.B., E.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
At the request of the Council, Wilhelm Waldeyer, M.D., 
LL.D., D.Sc., Professor of Anatomy, University of Berlin, and 
Permanent Secretary of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, 
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, gave an 
Address on 
“The Present Position of the Neuron Doctrine.” (Illustrated 
by Specimens.) 
The Rt. Hon. the Lord Provost, in the name of the Magistrates, 
Town Council, and Citizens, welcomed Professor Waldeyer to 
Edinburgh. On the motion of Principal Sir William Turner, 
seconded by Professor M ‘Kendrick, and unanimously approved, the 
Chairman conveyed to Professor Waldeyer the cordial thanks of 
the Society for his able and interesting address. 
FOURTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , \Wi June 1905. 
Dr R. H. Traquair, E.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. A Comparative Study of the Dominant Phanerogamic and Higher 
Cryptogamic Flora of Aquatic Habit. By George West, Esq. Com- 
municated by Sir John Murray, K.C.B. pp. 966-1024. 
2. Les Concretions phosphatees de F Agulhas Bank (Cape of Good 
Hope), par Dr Leon W. Collet, Assistant de Sir John Murray ; avec 
une description de la Glauconie qu’elles renferment, par Gabriel W. 
Lee, B.Sc. Communique par Sir John Murray, K.C.B. pp. 862-893. 
3. Note on some of the Magnetic Properties of Demagnetised and 
Annealed Iron. By James Russell, pp. 849-852. 
4. Certain Mathematical Instruments for Graphically Indicating the 
Direction of Refracted and Reflected Light Rays. By James R. Milne, 
B.Sc. pp. 806-812. 
5. On the Hydrodynamical Theory of Seiches. By Professor 
Chrystal. Trans., vol. 41, pp. 599-649. 
6. On a Group of Linear Differential Equations of the Second Order, 
including Professor Chrystal’s Seiche -Equations as special cases. By Dr 
J. Halm. Trans., vol. 41, pp. 651-676. 
