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TWELFTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, June 21, 1915. 
Professor Hudson Beare, Yice-President, in the Chair, 
The Makdougall-Brisbane Prize Award for the biennial period 1912/13-1913/14. 
The Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh have awarded the Makdougall- Brisbane Prize- 
to Professor C. R. Marshall for his studies “On the Pharmacological Action of Tetra-alkyl- 
aminonium Compounds.” The Prize will be presented at the Ordinary Meeting of July 5, 1915. 
The following Communications were read ; — 
1. On the Composition of Milk as ati'ected by Increase of the Amount of Calcium Phosphate 
in the Rations of a Cow. By Alexander Lauder, D.Sc., and T. AY. Fagan, M.A. [IVith 
Lantern Illustrations. ) 
2. Comparative Study of Autotomy. By J. Herbert Paul, M.A. , B. Sc. Communicated by 
Professor Noel Paton. ( With Lantern Illustrations.) 
3. A Contribution to the Study of the Scottish Skull. By Matthew Youlg, M.B., Ch.B. 
Communicated by Professor Bryce. 
4. The Development and Morphology of the Sporosacs of Dicoryne, with Description of a new 
Form. By J, H. Ashworth, D.Sc., and J. Ritchie, M.A. , D.Sc. {With Lantern Illustrations.) 
The following Candidates for Fellowship were balloted for, and declared duly elected : — 
James Hermann Rosenthal Kemnal, Managing Director and Engineer-in-Chief of Babcock 
& AVilcox, Ltd., Kemnal Manor, Chisleburst, Kent, and James Lorrain Smith, Professor 
of Pathology, University, Edinburgh, 11 Bruntsfield Crescent, Edinburgh. 
FIRST SPECIAL MEETING. 
Monday, June 28, 1915. 
Dr Peach, F.R.S., Yice-President, in the Chair. 
The Makdougall-Brisbane Prize A’WARD for the biennial period 1912/13-1913/14. 
The Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh have awarded the Makdougall-Brisbane Prize 
to Professor C. R. Marshall for his studies “ On the Pharmacological Action of Tetra-alkyl- 
ammonium Compounds.” The Prize will be presented at the Ordinary Meeting of July 5, 1915. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Six Papers communicated by Professor Gregory : — 
{a) Contributions to the Geology of Benguella. By Professor J. W. Gregory, F.R.S. 
(6) Notes on Rocks obtained in Angola by Professor J. AY. Gregory. By G. AY. 
Tyrrell, A.R.C.S. 
(c) On some Cretaceous Shells from Angola, Portuguese AA^est Africa. By R. B. Newton. 
{d) On some Cretaceous Echinoidea from the north of Lobito Bay. By Professor J. AY. 
Gregory, F.R.S. 
{e) On some Cephalopoda from Benguella. By G. C. Crick. 
if) Notes on an Algal Limestone of Angola. By Mrs Margaret F. Romanes. 
2 On the Zeolites and Associated Minerals from the Tertiary Lavas around Ben More, Mull. 
By AAL F. P. M’Lintock, B.Sc. Communicated by Dr J. S. Flett, F.R.S. 
3, A See-saw of Barometric Pressure between the AYeddell Sea and the Ross Sea. By 
R. C. Mossman. 
4. The Magnetic Quality of Iron and Steel as affected by Transverse Pressure. By AA^. 
J. AYalker, B.Sc. Communicated by Professor AY. Peddie, 
5 {a) Chalk Boulders from Aberdeen and Fragments of Chalk from the Sea Floor off the 
Scottish Coast; (&) Notes on the Structure of the Chalk occurring in the Y^est of Scotland. By 
the late William Hill, Communicated by Professor D’Arcy Thompson. 
6. Sponges collected by the Scotia in the Antarctic. Supplementary Note. By Professor 
E. Topsent. Communicated by Dr W. S. Bruoe. 
7. On the Fossil Plants of the Forest of Wyre and Titterston Clee Hills Coalfields. By 
Dr R. Kidston, F R.S. WTth Remarks on the Geology of the Coalfields by T. C. Cantrill, B.Sc., 
F. G.S. , and E. Dixon, F.G.S. 
