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NINTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , ls£ March 1909, 
Dr R. H. Traquair, F,R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Mr Andrew W. Kerr, Dr J. H. Harvey Pirte, and Mr R. L, A. E, Westergaard signed 
the Roll, and were duly admitted Fellows of the Society. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. The Systematic Motion of the Stars (Second Paper), By Professor Dyson, F.R.S. 
2. Cynomacrurus Piriei, Poisson nouveau abyssal, recueilli par l’Expedition Antarctique 
Nationale Ecossaise. Note preliminaire, par Louis Dollo, Sc.D. (Cantab.), For. Mem. G.S.. 
C.M.Z.S. Presentee par M. R. H. Traquair, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. 
TENTH ORDINARY MEETING, 
Monday , 15 th March 1909. 
Dr John Horne, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Dr B. L. Mills signed the Roll, and was admitted a Fellow of the Society. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. The Glacial Deposits of Western Carnarvonshire. By Thos. J. Jehu, M.A., M.D. ( With 
Lantern Illustrations. ) 
2. The Glenboig Fireclay : its Halloysite and Sideroplesite. By Professor J. W. Gregory, 
F.R.S. 
3. Tuesite : a Scotch variety of Halloysite. By the same. 
The following Candidate was balloted for, and declared duly elected : — Peter Comrie, M. A. 
ELEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, 3rd May 1909. j 
Professor Cossar Ewart, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Mr Peter Comrie signed the Roll, and was formally admitted a Fellow of the Society. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Strophanthus Sarmentosus : its Pharmacological Action and use as an Arrow-Poison. By 
Professor Sir Thomas Fraser, M.D., and Alister P. Mackenzie, M.B., Carnegie Research 
Scholar. 
2. On the Histological Changes in the Liver and Kidney after Chloroform administered 
by different Channels. By Dr G. Herbert Clark. Communicated by Professor D. Noel 
Paton. 
3. The Pathogenesis of Micrococcus melitensis. By Dr J. Eyre. 
4. Life and Chemical Work of Archibald Scott Couper. By Richard Anschutz, Ph.D., 
LL.D. Communicated by Professor Crum Brown, LL.D. 
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TWELFTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, 17 th May 1909. 
Dr John Horne, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. On a Simple Radioscope and a Radiometer for Showing and Measuring Radioactivity. By 
Dr John Aitken, F.R.S. 
2. Mendelian Action and Differentiated Sex. By Dr D. Berry Hart. 
The following Candidates for Fellowship were balloted for, and declared duly elected Fellows 
of the Society: — Thomas Morrison Clayton, M.D. , D.Hy., B.Sc., D.P.H., Aucland C, 
Geddes, M.D. 
