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Election of Office-Bearers at the General Statutory Meeting, Monday,
Nov. 26, 1888,

Chairman's Opening Address,

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On Pseudalius alatus, Leuckart, collected by Mr Robert Gray in the

Arctic Seas, and other species of the Genus. By Dr O. v. Lin-

Communicated by Dr John Murray. (With a Plate),

Abstract of the Results of an Inquiry into the Causation of Asiatic

Cholera. By Neil Macleod, M.D. Edin., and Walter J. Milles,

F.R.C.S. Eng. Communicated by Dr Woodhead, .

Preliminary Remarks on the Homologies of the Mesenteries in Anti-

patharia and other Anthoza. By George Brook, Esq., Lecturer

on Comparative Embryology in the University of Edinburgh,

On Certain Bodies, apparently of Organic Origin, from a Quartzite

Bed near Inveraray. By his Grace the Duke of Argyll, K.G., K.T., 39

On the Virial Equation for Molecular Forces, being Part IV. of a

Paper on the Foundations of the Kinetic Theory of Gases.

Professor Tait,

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Strophanthus hispidus: its Natural History, Chemistry, and Phar-

macology. By Professor Thomas R. Fraser, M.D.,

A New Type of Dimorphism found in certain Antipatharia. By

George Brook, Esq., Lecturer on Comparative Embryology in the

University of Edinburgh,

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The Change in the Thermoelectric Properties of Wood's Fusible

Metal at its Melting Point. By Albert Campbell, Esq., B.A.,

Note on the Relation between the Mutual Distances of Five Points

in Space. By Thomas Muir, LL.D.,

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The Relation among Four Vectors. Note on Dr Muir's Paper.

Professor Tait,

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