1908-9.] 
Meetings of the Society. 
757 
THIRTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 7th June 1909, 
Professor A. Crum Brown, LL.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — ’ 
1. Scottish National Antarctic Expedition : The Anatomy of the Weddell Seal. By Professor 
David Hepburn. 
2. Lower Palaeozoic Hyolithidse from Girvan. By F. R. Cowper Reed, M.A., F.G.S. 
Communicated by Dr John Horne, F.R.S. 
3. The Atomic Weight of Platinum. By Professor E. H. Archibald. Communicated by 
Professor J. G. MacGregor. 
4. On Group Velocity, and on the Propagation of Waves in a Dispersive Medium. By Mr 
George Green. Communicated by Professor A. Gray, F.R.S. 
5. The Theory of Jacobians in the Historical Order of Development up to 1860. By 
Dr Thomas Muir. 
6. Nematonurus Lecointei, Poisson abyssal de la “Belgica” retrouve par l’Expedition 
Antarctique Nationale Ecossaise. Note preliminaire, par Louis Dollo, Sc.D. (Cantab.), Phil.D. 
(Giessen), C.M.Z.S., a Bruxelles (Musee). Presentee par M. R. H. Traquair, M.D., LL.D., 
F.R.S. 
7. An Experiment with the Spark Gap of an Induction Coil. By Dr Dawson Turner. 
FOURTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday, 21st June 1909. 
Dr Jas. Burgess, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. The Pharmacological Action of Protocatechyltropeine. By Professor C. R. Marshall. 
( W ith Lantern Illustrations. ) 
2. The Toot-poison of New Zealand: an Investigation into its Pharmacological Action. By 
Professor C. R. Marshall. ( With Lantern Illustrations . ) 
3. Hydrolysis of Salts in Amphoteric Electrolytes. By Miss H. H. Beveridge, B.Sc., 
Carnegie Research Scholar. Communicated by Professor James Walker. 
4. Seismic Radiations. — Part II. By Dr C. G. Knott. 
FIRST SPECIAL MEETING. 
Monday, 28th June 1909. 
Dr R. H. Traquair, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Address was delivered in French 
Sur les gigantesques Reptiles Eteints de la Belgique. Par M. Louis Dollo, Sc.D., Phil.D., 
Professeur a TUniversite et Conservateur au Musee royal d’Histoire naturelle a Bruxelles. ( With 
Lantern Illustrations.) 
FIFTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 5th July 1909. 
Professor Cossar Ewart, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair, 
Dr A. C. Geddes signed the Roll, and was duly admitted a Fellow of the Society. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Notes on the Skeleton of a Sowerby’s Whale ( Mesoplodon bidens) stranded at St Andrews, 
and on the Morphology of the Manus in Hyperoodon, and in the Delphinidse. By Sir Wm. 
Turner, K.C.B., President of the Society. 
2. Current and Temperature Observations in Loch Ness. By E. M. Wedderburn, W.S., and 
W. Watson, M.A., B.Sc. 
3. Pettersson’s Observations on Deep-water Oscillations. By E. M. Wedderburn, W.S. 
4. A Carboniferous Fauna from Nowaja Semlja. Collected by Dr W. S. Bruce during a voyage 
in Major Andrew Coats’ yacht Blencathra. By Dr G. W. Lee. Communicated by Dr John 
Horne. 
