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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ORDINARY MEETINGS, 
Session 1914-1915. 
FIRST ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, November 2, 1914. 
Professor James Geikie, LL.D., D.C.L , F.R.S., F.G.S., President, in the Chair, 
The President opened the Session Avith a Short Summary of Last Session’s Work. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. The Baleen Whales of the South Atlantic, By Principal Sir William Turner, K.C. B., 
F.R.S. 
2. The Optical Rotation and Cryoseopic Behaviour of Sugars dissolved in {a) Forraamide, 
{h) Water. By John E. Mackenzie, Ph.D., D.Sc, and Sudhamoy Ghosh, M Sc. Communi- 
cated by the Secretary, 
SECOND ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, November 16, 1914. 
Professor F. 0. Bower, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Fossil Micro-organisms from the Jurassic and Cretaceous Rocks of Great Britain. By 
David Ellis, Ph.D. {IVith Lantern Illustrations.) 
2. The Anatomy and Affinity of Deparia Moorei, Hk. By J. M‘Lean Thompson, B.Sc. 
Communicated by Professor Bower. ( With Lantern Illustrations.) 
3. Properties of the Determinant of an Orthogonal Substitution. By Thomas Muir, 
LL.D., F.R.S. 
THIRD ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, December 7, 1914. 
Principal A. P. Laurie, M.A., D.Sc., in the Chair, 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Obituary Notice of Professor John Gibson, Ph.D, By Principal A. P. Laurie. 
2. The Application of Mathematical Methods to Morphology. By Professor D’Arcy W. 
Thompson, C.B. ( With Lantern Illustrations.) 
3. On an Integral -Equation whose Solutions are the Functions of Lame. By Professor 
E. T. AVhittaker. 
The following Candidate for Fellowship was balloted for, and declared duly elected : —John 
Edward Aloysius Steggall, M.A., Professor of Mathematics at University College, Dundee, 
FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, December 21, 1914, 
Professor Sir Thomas Fraser, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. The Poisoned Arrows of the Abors and Mishmis of North-East India, and the Com- 
