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Presentation of Bust of Lord Kelvin. (With Frontispiece ), ... 1 
1. Opening Address by the President, Professor James Geikie, LL.D., D.C.L., 
F.R.S., F.G.S., delivered at the First Ordinary Meeting for the Session, held 
on November 3, 1913, ........ 4 
2. Observations on the Auditory 0 gan in the Cetacea. By Principal Sir Wm. 
Turner, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S. Issued separately December 31, 1913, . 10 
3. Note on a Siliceous Sponge of the Order Hexactinellida from South Shetland. 
By Principal Sir William Turner, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S. Issued separately 
December 31, 1913, ........ 23 
4. Some Factorable Minors of a Compound Determinant. By Professor W. H. 
Metzler. Issued separately December 31, 1913, . . . .27 
5. The Theory of Bigradients from 1859 to 1880. By Thomas Muir, LL.D. 
Issued separately February 19, 1914, ...... 32 
6. The Kinetic Energy of Viscous Flow through a Circular Tube. By Professor 
A. H. Gibson, D.Sc., University College, Dundee. Issued separately 
February 19, 1914, ........ 60 
7. The Axial Inclination of Curves of Thermoelectric Force : a Case from the 
Thermoelectrics of Strained Wires. By John M‘Whan, M.A., Ph.D., 
Lecturer in Mathematics in the University of Glasgow. Communicated by 
Professor Andrew Gray, LL.D., F.R.S. Issued separately March 20, 1914, . 64 
8. The Path of a Ray of Light in a Rotating Homogeneous and Isotropic Solid. 
By E. M. Anderson, M.A., B.Sc. Communicated by The General Secretary. 
Issued separately March 20, 1914, . . . . . . 69 
9. Principia Atmospherica : a Study of the Circulation of the Atmosphere. An 
Address delivered at the request of the Council before the Royal Society of 
Edinburgh, on December 1, 1913. By W. N. Shaw, LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., 
Director of the Meteorological Office, Reader in Meteorology in the University 
of London. Issued separately March 23, 1914, . . . . 77 
10. Enzymatic Peptolysis in Germinating Seeds. By Dorothy Court, B.Sc., Carnegie 
Research Fellow. Communicated by Professor E. Westergaard. Issued 
separately March 26, 1914, . . . . . . .113 
11. A Study of the Curvatures of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Cranium. By L. W. G. 
Buchner, Victorian Government Research Scholar in the Anthropology 
Department of the University of Melbourne. Communicated by Professor 
R. J. A. Berry. (With Three Folding Tables.) Issued separately April 28, 
1914, 
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