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EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday^ March 1, 1915. 
Professor Hudson Beare, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. On the Motion of a Body in a Fluid. By H. Levy, M, A., B.Sc. Communicated by the 
General Secretary. 
2. On the Electrical Conductivity of Aqueous Hydrochloric Acid, saturated with Sodium 
Chloride ; and on a new form of Conductivity Cell. By F.D. Miles, B.Sc., A.R. C.S. Communi- 
cated by Principal Laurie. {Illustrated by Apparatus and Lantern. ) 
3. The Reaction between Sodamide and Hydrogen. By F. D. Miles, B.Sc., A.R. C.S. 
Communicated by Principal Laurie. 
The following Candidate for Fellowship was balloted for, and declared duly elected : — 
Walter Leonard Bell, M.D. Edin., F.S.A. Scot., 123 London Road North, Lowestoft, 
Suffolk. 
NINTH ORDINARY AIEETING. 
Monday, March 15, 1915. 
Professor Bower, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Chairman opened the Meeting with an appreciation of the late President, Professor 
James Geikie. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. On the Larvae of Lingula and Pelagodiscus. By Dr J. H. Ashworth. {With Lantern 
Illustrations.) 
2. The Reflective Power of Pigments in the Ultra-Violet. By Charles Cochrane, M. A. , B.Sc. 
Communicated by Dr R. A. Houstoun. 
3. On Archseocyathinee from a Boulder dredged in the Weddell Sea. (Scottish National 
Antarctic Expedition.) By Dr W. T. Gordon. 
TENTH ORDINARY AIEETING. 
Monday, J/ny 3, 1915. 
Professor Hudson Beare, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. The Temperatures, Specific Gravities, and Salinities of the Weddell Sea, and of the 
N. and S. Atlantic Oceans. By Dr W. S. Bruce, Mr A. King, and Mr D. W. Wilton. 
2. The Theory of the Gyroscope. By Professor Horace Lamb. 
3. The Phenomena of Evaporation and their Bearing on the Kinetic Theory. By Dr 
H. C. Williamson. 
The following Candidates for Fellowship were balloted for, and declared duly elected: — 
Joseph Roberi’ Fraser, Clergyman, U.F. Church Manse, Kinneff, and George Clark Trotter, 
M.D., Ch.B. (Edin.), D.P.H. (Aberdeen), Medical Officer of Health, Paisley, “Remuera,” Paisley. 
ELEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, June 7, 1915, 
Professor Sir Thomas R. Fraser, F.R.S.. Vice-President, in the Chaii-. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Studies on the Development of the Horse : The Development during the first three weeks. 
By Professor J. Cossar Ewart, F.R.S. {With Lantern Illustrations.) 
2. On the Functions which are represented by the Expansions of the Interpolation Theory. 
By Professor E. T. Whittaker, F.R.S. ( With Lantern Illustrations.) 
3. On a Modification of Pelouze’s Method for determining Nitrates. By Professor A. E. 
Letts and Miss Florence W. Rea. 
4. Quaternion Investigation of the Commutative Law for Homogeneous Strains. By Frank 
L. Hitchcock. Communicated by the General Secretary. 
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