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FOURTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , IQth June 1913. 
Dr B. N. Peach, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communication was read : — 
The Properties of the Gyrostat, illustrated by Experiments with New Gyrostats and with 
New Gyrostatic Models, including Pole Balancing Tops, Gyrostatic Bicycle Riders, and Gyrostatic 
Motor Cars. By Dr J. G. Gray, Lecturer in Physics in the University of Glasgow. 
Mr Alexander Philip signed the Roll, and was duly admitted a Fellow of the Society. 
FIFTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, 1th July 1913. 
Dr Horne, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Chairman read the names of the following gentlemen, proposed by the Council as Honorary 
Fellows of the Society ; they will be balloted for at the Ordinary Meeting on 3rd November 1913 : — 
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As British Honorary Fellows : — 
1. Horace Lamb, M.A., Sc.D., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., Professor of Mathematics in the 
University of Manchester. 
2. Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, K.C.M.G., C.I.E., M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., formerly 
Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 
As Foreign Honorary Fellows : — 
1. Santiago Ramon y Cajal, F.M.R.S., Professor of Histology and Pathological Anatomy in 
the University of Madrid. 
2. George Ellery Hale, F.M.R.S., Director of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory 
(Carnegie Institution of Washington), Pasadena, California. 
3. Emil Clement Jungfleisch, Mem. Inst. Fr. , Professor of Organic Chemistry in the College 
of France, Paris. 
4. Vito Volterra, F. M.R. S., Sc.D., Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics and Physics in the 
University of Rome. 
5. Charles Ren:£ Zeiller, Mem. Inst. Fr., Professor of Plant Palaeontology in the National 
Superior School of Mines, Paris. 
The following communications were read : — 
1. Plane Strain in a Wedge, with Application to Masonry Dams. By S. D. Carothers, 
A.R.C.Sc.I. Communicated by the General Secretary. Proc ., vol. xxxiii. pp. 292-306. 
2. The Corals of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. By J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A., 
F.R.S. Communicated by Dr J. H. Ashworth. Trans., vol. xlix. pp. 687-689. 
3. The Schizopoda, Stomatopoda, and Non- Antarctic Isopoda of the Scottish National Antarctic 
Expedition. By Dr Walter M. Tattersall. Communicated by Dr J. H. Ashworth. Trans., 
vol. xlix. pp. 865-894. 
4. On Some Pseudo-hermaphrodite Examples of Daphnia pulex. By Dr J. H. Ashworth. 
Proc., vol. xxxiii. pp. 307-316. 
SIXTEENTH AND LAST ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 2\st July 1913. 
Dr Horne, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Prizes were presented : — 
1. The Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize for the quadrennial period 1908-12 to Professor J. 
Norman Collie, Ph.D., F.R.S., for his distinguished contributions to Chemistry, Organic and 
Inorganic, during twenty-seven years, including his work upon Neon and other rare gases. 
Professor Collie’s early papers were contributed to the Transactions of the Society. 
2. The Makdougall-Brisbane Prize for the biennial period 1910-12 to Dr John Brownlee, 
for his contributions to the Theory of Mendelian Distributions and cognate subjects, published in 
the Proceedings of the Society within and prior to the prescribed period. 
