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Meetings of the Society. 
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THIRD ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , December 1, 1913. 
Professor J. Hudson Beare, B.Sc., M. Inst.C.E., "Vice-President, in the Chair. 
At the request of the Council the following Address was delivered : — 
Principia Atmospherica : A Study of the Circulation of the Atmosphere. By W. N. Shaw, 
LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S. , Director of the Meteorological Office, London. ( With Lantern 
Illustrations . ) 
The following Communications were also read : — 
1. Observations on the Auditory Organ in the Cetacea. By Principal Sir William Turner, 
K.C.B. 
2. Note on a Siliceous Sponge of the Order Hexactinellida from South Shetland. By Principal 
Sir William Turner, K.C.B. 
The following Candidates for Fellowship were balloted for, and declared duly elected : — John 
William Pare, M.B., C.M. (Edin.), M.D., L.D.S. (Eng.), William Fraser, William Barron 
Coutts, M.A., B.S., Alfred Oswald, and John Edward Gemmell, M.B., C.M. (Edin.). 
FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , December 15, 1913, 
Professor James Geikie, LL.D., D.C.L. , F.R.S. , F.G.S. , President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Obituary Notice of Dr R. M. Ferguson. By Dr A. E. Scougal, M.A. 
2. Studies on the Pharmacological Action of Tetra-alkyl-ammonium Compounds. II. — The 
Action of Tetra - ethyl - ammonium Chloride. III. — The Action of Methyl - ethyl - ammonium 
Chlorides. By Professor C. R. Marshall, M.D. ( With Lantern Illustrations.) 
3. Enzymatic Peptolysis in Germinating Seeds. — Parts I. and II. By Miss Dorothy Court, 
B.Sc. Communicated by Professor E. Westergaard, Ph. D. 
4. The Kinetic Energy of Viscous Flow through a Circular Tube. By Professor A. H. Gibson, 
D.Sc. 
5. Polychseta of the Family Nereidse collected by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. 
By L. N. G. Ramsay, M.A., B.Sc. Communicated by Dr J. H. Ashworth. 
FIFTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , January 19, 1914. 
Professor James Geikie, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.G.S. , President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. The Place in Nature of the Tasmanian Aboriginal as deduced from a Study of his Calvaria. 
Part II. — His Relation to the Australian Aboriginal. By Professor R. J. A. Berry and Dr 
A. W. D. Robertson. 
2. A Study of the Curvatures of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Cranium. By Mr L. W. G. Buchner. 
Communicated by Professor R. J. A. Berry. (In the absence of Professor Berry a brief account 
of the above two papers was given by Dr Gerald Leighton.) 
3. 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. 
4. The Anatomy of a New Species of Bathydoris and the Affinities of the Genus: Scottish 
National Antarctic Expedition. By T. J. Evans, M.A. Communicated by Dr J. H. Ashworth. 
( With Lantern Illustrations. ) 
5. On the Genus Porponia and related Genera : Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. By 
Professor Oskar Carlgren. Communicated by Dr W. S. Bruce. {With Lantern Illustrations.) 
The following Candidates for Fellowship were balloted for, and declared duly elected : — 
Joseph Pearson, D.Sc., F.L.S., Director of the Colombo Museum, and Marine Biologist to the 
Ceylon Government, Colombo Museum, Ceylon; Spencer Mort, M.B., Ch. B., Medical Super- 
