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Meetings of the Society. 
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Meetings of the Royal Society — Session 1890-91. 
Monday , 20h November 1890. 
General Statutory Meeting. Election of Office-Bearers. P. xviii. 1. 
Monday , Is/ December 1890. 
Sir Douglas Maclagan, M.D., President, in the Chair. 
1. The President gave an Opening Address. P. xviii. 2. 
The following Communications were read : — 
2. Obituary Notice of Professor Hermann Kolbe. By Prof. Crum 
Brown. P. xvii. p. xxxv. 
3. On an Analytical Examination of Manganese Nodules, with special 
reference to the Presence of the Barer Elements. By John Gibson, 
Esq., PhD. 
4. On the Occurrence of Sulphur in Marine Muds and Nodules, and 
its Bearing on their Modes of Eormation. By J. Y. Buchanan, F.B.S. 
P. xviii. 17. 
5. Anatomical Description of Two New Genera of Aquatic Oligochseta. 
By Frank E. Beddard, M.A. Oxon. T. xxxvi. 273. 
6. On a Simple Pocket Dust-Counter. By J. Aitken, F.B.S. P. 
xviii. 39. 
The following Candidates for Fellowships were balloted for, and 
declared duly elected Fellows of the Society : — 
Henry Hannotte Vernon, M.D. 
J. H. Fullarton, M.A., D.Sc. 
Joshua Law Kerr, M.D. 
James Walker, D.Sc., Ph.D. 
Alexander Smith, Ph.D. 
Charles A. Cooper. 
Monday, 15th December 1890. 
Professor Crum Brown, Secretary, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. On the Extension of Brouncker’s Method to the Comparison of 
Several Magnitudes. By E. Sang, Esq., LL.D. P. xviii. 341. 
2. Proposed Extensions of Quaternion Powers of Differentiation. By 
Alexander M‘Aulay, Ormond College, Melbourne. Communicated by 
Professor Tait. P. xviii. 98. 
