PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 
VOL. XXXV. 1914-15. 
I. — Opening Address by the President, November 2, 1914. 
Gentlemen, — Before calling for the communications indicated on the 
billet, 1 may be permitted to give a short summary of the Society’s work 
during the session which has closed. 
At the opening meeting, it will be remembered, a bust of Lord Kelvin 
was presented to the Society by Lady Kelvin. Professor Crum Brown 
made the presentation in the name of Lady Kelvin, and the President, 
Sir William Turner, received the bust in the name of the Society. 
During the session 42 communications were read — 2 of these being 
of the nature of addresses. The communications on the biological side 
of science might be classified as follows : — Anatomy, 3 ; anthropology, 3 ; 
bacteriology, 1 ; botany, 1 ; medicine, 1 ; palaeontology, 3 ; pharmacology, 2 ; 
zoology, 8 — in all, 22. Those on the physical or non -biological side might 
be classified as follows : — Chemistry, 1 ; engineering, 2 ; geology, 3 ; mathe- 
matics, 6 ; experimental physics, 8 — in all, 18. 
Two prizes were awarded by the Council : the Keith prize to Mr James 
Russell for researches in magnetism, and the Neill prize to Dr W. S. Bruce 
for the scientific results of the Scotia expedition. 
The membership of the Society has been increased during the year by 
the election of nineteen ordinary fellows ; but we have lost by death 
fifteen fellows, of whom seven were honorary and eight were ordinary. 
The names of the former are so well known that it will suffice to indicate 
very briefly the nature of the scientific work they accomplished : — 
Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., LL.D., F.R.S., who died on 7th November 
1913 at 90 years of age, was a great biologist of the older type. He was 
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