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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [Sess. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ORDINARY MEETINGS, 
Session 1912-1913. 
FIRST ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 4th November 1912. 
Principal Sir Wm. Turner, K.C.B., President, in the Chair. 
At the request of the Council an Address was delivered : — 
On Reflex Inhibition as an Element in the Co-ordination of Animal Movements. By Professor 
Charles Scott Sherrington, M.A., M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Holt Professor of Physiology in the 
University of Liverpool. 
Professor Charles Scott Sherrington signed the Roll of Honorary Fellows. 
SECOND ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 18£7i November 1912. 
Dr Horne, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following communications were read : — 
1. On the Deviation of the Law of Torsional Oscillation of Metals from Isochronism. By 
Professor W. Peddie. Proc., vol. xxxiii. pp. 225-242. 
2. On a fuller Test of the Law of Torsional Oscillation of Wires, and On a continued Investiga- 
tion on the Behaviour of certain Torsionally Oscillating Wires. By Mr James B. Ritchie. 
Communicated by Professor W. Peddie. Proc., vol. xxxiii. pp. 177-182. 
3. On the Energetics of the Induction Balance. By J. P. Dalton, M.A. , B.Sc. Com- 
municated by Professor W. Peddie. 
4. Periodicity in Plants. By R. A. Robertson, M.A., B.Sc., and Miss Rosalind Crosse. 
Proc., vol. xxxiii. pp. 85-102. 
5. Theory of Axisymmetric Determinants from 1857 to 1880. By Dr Thomas Muir. Proc., 
vol. xxxiii. pp. 49-63. 
The following Candidates for Fellowship were balloted for, and declared duly elected: — 
William Thomas Gordon, M.A., D.Sc., B.A., and George Henry Masson, M.D., D.Sc., 
M.R.C.P.E. 
THIRD ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, 2nd December 1912. 
Principal Sir William Turner, K. C. B., President, in the Chair. 
Before beginning the business of the Meeting, the President referred to the loss the Society 
had sustained through the death of Dr R. H. Traquair, and briefly mentioned the scope of his work, 
and the many offices he had occupied in the Society. [Obituary Notice, Proc., vol. xxxiii. 
pp. 336-341.] 
The following communications were read : — 
1. The Right Whale of the North Atlantic, Balcena biscayensis, its Skeleton described and 
compared with that of the Greenland Right Whale, Balcena mysticetus. By the President. 
Trans., vol. xlviii. pp. 889-922. 
2. The Loss of Energy at Oblique Impact of Two Confined Streams of Water. By Professor 
A. H. Gibson, D.Sc. Trans., xlviii. pp. 799-811. 
3. The Hydroid Zoophytes collected by the British Antarctic Expedition of Sir E. Shackleton, 
1908. By Dr James Ritchie. Communicated by Mr Wm. Eagle Clarke. Proc., vol. xxxiii. 
pp. 9-34. 
