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THIRTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , June 15, 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. Obituary Notice of Albert C. L. G. Gunther, M.A., M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S. By Professor 
W. C. MTntosh, F.R.S. 
2. The Fossil Osmundacese, Part V. By Dr R. Kidston, F.R.S. , F.G.S., and Professor 
D. T. Gwynne-Yaughan, M.A. ( With Lantern Illustrations.) 
3. The Hall and the Transverse Thermomagnetic Effects and their Temperature Coefficients. 
By F. Unwin, M.Sc. Communicated by Professor F. G. Baily. ( With Lantern Illustrations.) 
4. Some Factorable Continuants. By Professor W. H. Metzler, Ph.D. 
5. Atlantic Sponges collected by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. By Miss Jane 
Stephens. Communicated by Dr W. S. Bruce. 
The following Candidates for Fellowship were balloted for, and duly declared elected : — 
Alexander Gibb, A.M.Inst.C.E., and Robert Durward Clarkson, B.Sc., M.D., F.R.C.P.E. 
Mr Peter Ramsay signed the Roll, and was duly admitted a Fellow of the Society. 
FOURTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , July 6, 1914. 
Professor James Geikie, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
The following Prizes were presented : — 
1. The Neill Prize for the biennial period 1911-1912, 1912-1913 to William Speirs 
Bruce, LL.D., in recognition of the scientific results of his Arctic and Antarctic explorations. 
2. The Keith Prize for the biennial period 1911-1912, 1912-1913 to Mr James Russell, for 
his series of investigations relating to magnetic phenomena in metals and the molecular theory of 
magnetism, the results of which have been published in the Proceedings and Transactions of the 
Society, the last paper having been issued within the period. 
Neill Prize Award, 1911-13. 
The Neill Prize for the period 1911-1913 is awarded to Dr W. S. Bruce, a distinguished 
traveller and naturalist. Dr Bruce, as the Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh well know, 
has spent his life in the exploration of Arctic and Antarctic seas and lands. He began his work 
more than twenty years ago by a voyage to certain islands of the Antarctic Ocean ; in recent 
years he has especially explored the Archipelago of Spitzbergen ; and in 1902 to 1904 he led the 
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition through its adventurous voyage to a successful issue. 
Dr Bruce’s many voyages, and especially the expedition of the Scotia , have led to the 
advancement of knowledge in many departments of science. With the science of geography itself, 
with the actual survey of new lands and seas, other Societies than this are peculiarly concerned. 
But as far as living memory goes back, the Royal Society of Edinburgh has been proud to 
encourage, with all its sympathy, and to help with all the means in its power, those discoveries, 
biological and physical, which follow and reward the explorations of the scientific traveller. 
In the Transactions of our Society there have appeared, during several recent years, a long 
series of papers based on the results of the Scotia Expedition ; in which papers new organisms 
from almost every group of the Animal Kingdom have been described, and in which important 
questions of physics, of meteorology, and of oceanography have been discussed. These many 
writings, by many hands, bear witness to the wisdom with which a great expedition was planned, 
to the enthusiasm with which its leader animated his band of men, and to the foresight and untiring 
industry which watched for and laid hold of the opportunities of discovery. 
Keith Prize Award, 1911-13. 
Mr Russell’s work, published mainly in our Transactions , dates from the early years of the 
century. In his first paper he discussed the problem of magnetic shielding in hollow iron 
cylinders, distinguishing the cases in which a transverse field existed alone, or had superposed 
upon it either a circular or a longitudinal field. This work was experimental, but its results were 
compared with those of the usual approximate theory. An investigation was also given of the 
inductions produced by mutually perpendicular fields, and the effects were co-ordinated for the 
first time and shown to be consistent with the results of the theory of molecular magnetism. 
