1888-89.] 
Meetings of the Society. 
811 
His Excellency James Eussell Lowell, Esq., Hon. D.C.L. Oxford, 
and LL.D. Cambridge and Edinburgh. 
Dr Georg Hermann Quincke, Professor of Physics in the University 
of Heidelberg. 
The following Gentleman was balloted for, and declared duly 
elected as a British Honorary Fellow of the Society : — 
Sir Robert Stawell Ball, LL.D., Royal Astronomer of Ireland. 
Monday , 4 th March 1889. 
Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
The President announced that the Council had awarded 
The Keith Prize, for the Period 1885-87, to Mr J.‘Y. Buchanan. 
The Makdougall-Brisbane Prize, for the Period 1884-86, to Dr John 
Murray. 
The Makdougall-Brisbane Prize, for the Period 1886-88, to Dr Archi- 
bald Geikie. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Deductive Evidence of a Uterine Nerve Centre, and of the Location 
of such in the Medulla Oblongata. By Dr J. Oliver. Communicated 
by Dr G. Sims Woodhead. P. xvi. 175. 
2. Diagram illustrating the History of Determinants. By Dr Muir. 
3. Note on the Relation between the Mutual Distances of Five Points 
in Space. By Thomas Muir, LL.D. P. xvi. 86. 
4. The Relation among Four Vectors. By Professor Tait. P. xvi. 88. 
5. On a Gyrostatic Model of a medium capable of transmitting Waves 
of Transverse Vibration. By the President. 
6. Observations on the Metabolism of Man during Starvation. By 
D. Noel Paton, M.D., and Ralph Stockman, M.D. P. xvi. 121. 
The following Candidates were balloted for, and declared duly 
elected Fellows of the Society: — 
Boverton Redwood, Esq. 
Rev. James Lindsay, M.A., B.D., B.Sc., F.G.S. 
Monday , 18 th March 1889. 
Dr John Murray, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. A Contribution to the Chromatology of the Bile. By John B. 
Haycraft, M.D., D.Sc., and Dr Harold Scofield. P. xvi. 188. 
