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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 
5. Note on the Flight of Nigerian Arrows. By Dr C. G. Knott. 
6. The Development of the Auditory Ossicles in the Horse, with a Note on their possible 
Homologs in the Lower Vertebrata. By Ray F, Coyle. Communicated by Professor Cossar 
Ewart. 
Hugh Steuart Gladstone, M.A., M.B.O.U., F.Z.S., was balloted for, and declared duly 
elected Fellow of the Society. 
SECOND SPECIAL MEETING. 
Monday , 12 th July 1909. 
Dr Horne, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. A Further Contribution to a Comparative Study of the Dominant Phanerogamic and Higher 
Cryptogamic Flora of Aquatic Habit in Scottish Lakes. (Scottish Lake Survey). By George 
West, Esq. Communicated by Sir John Murray, K.C.B. 
2. Osteology of Antarctic Seals. (Scottish National Antarctic Expedition.) By R. B. Thomson, 
M.B., Ch. B. Communicated by Dr W. S. Bruce. 
3. A Negative Attempt to detect Fluorescence Absorption. By Dr R. A. Houston. Com- 
municated by Professor A. Gray. 
4. On the Effect of Internal Friction in Cases of Compound Stress. By G. H. Gulliver, B.Sc. 
5. A New Experimental Method of Investigating certain Systems of Stress. By G. H. 
Gulliver, B.Sc. 
6. Motion of Neptune’s Satellite. By David Gibb, M.A., B.Sc. Communicated by Professor 
Dyson. 
7. The Monsoons of the Chilian Littoral. By R. C. Mossman. 
8. The Superadiugate Determinant and Skew Determinants having a Univarial Diagonal. By 
Dr Thomas Muir. 
