of Edinburgh, Session 1877-78. 
549 
Monday , 4 th February 1878. 
Sir C. WYYILLE THOMSON, Vice-President, 
in the Chair. 
In delivering the Neill Medal to Dr Traquair, the Chairman 
made the following remarks : — 
Dr Ramsay Traquair, — The Neill prize for the triennial period 
1874-77 has been awarded to you by the Council of this Society, 
nominally for your paper on the structures and affinities of Tristi- 
chojpterus alatus (Egerton), communicated to this Society within 
the required period, and published in the 27th volume of the Trans- 
actions of the Society. The Council have, however, also taken 
into account, as they are entitled to do by the conditions of the 
prize, the many contributions which you have made during some 
years past to the knowledge of the structure of recent and fossil 
fishes. 
I may mention as among the more important of these a memoir 
“ On the Asymmetry of the Pleuronectkhe, as elucidated by an 
examination of the skeleton in the Turbot, Halibut, and Plaiee,” 
published in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 
for the year 1865; a paper “On the Cranial Osteology of Polypterus,” 
in the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology for the year 1870 : and 
a work on “ The Ganoid Pishes of the British Carboniferous For- 
mations,” now in course of publication by the Paloeontographical 
Society. 
You have been fortunately placed during the last few years in a 
locality remarkably rich in the group of fossils to which you have 
paid special attention, and already three parts of a valuable series 
of papers “ On new and little-known Fossil Fishes from the Edin- 
burgh District” have appeared in the Proceedings of this Society. 
I have much pleasure in presenting to you the Neill medal in the 
name of the Council of the Society. 
The following Communications were read : — 
VOL. ix. 4 D 
