PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH.

OF

THE ROYAL SOCIETY

OF

EDINBURG H.

VOL. XXXVIII.

NOVEMBER 1917 TO JULY 1918.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY NEILL AND COMPANY, LIMITED.

MDCCCCXIX.

CONTENTS.

1. Recent Developments of the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific

and Industrial Research. Address by John Horne, LL.D., F.R.S. Issued

separately January 30, 1918,

2. Wm. J. Beaton, Second Lieutenant Machine Gun Company, Assistant Librarian,

R.S.E. By The General Secretary,

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3. Notices of Fellows, Honorary and Ordinary, recently deceased. By The General

Secretary,

4. Period of Survival of the Shore-Crab (Carcinus mænas) in Distilled Water. By

Robert K. S. Lim. (From the Laboratory of Physiology, Edinburgh Uni-

versity.) Communicated by Professor Sir E. A. Schäfer, F.R.S. Issued

separately February 28, 1918, .

5. Thermodynamics of Adsorption. By A. M. Williams, M.A., B.Sc., 1851 Exhibi-

tion Scholar of the University of Edinburgh, 1911-14. Communicated by

Professor James Walker, F.R.S. Issued separately February 28, 1918,

6. A Further Study of the Diets of Labouring Class Families in Glasgow in War

Time. By Margaret I. H. Ferguson. (From the Department of Physiology,

University of Glasgow.) Communicated by Professor D. Noël Paton.

separately February 28, 1918,

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7. Experiments on the Respiratory Mechanism of the Shore-Crab (Carcinus mænas).

By Robert K. S. Lim. (From the Laboratory of Physiology, Edinburgh

University.) Communicated by Professor Sir E. A. Schäfer. Issued

separately April 16, 1918,

8. A Determinantal Equation whose Roots are the Products of the Roots of Given

Equations. By Professor William H. Metzler. Issued separately April 16,

1918,

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9. A Reduction-formula for the Functions of the Second Kind connected with the

Polynomials of Applied Mathematics. By Pierre Humbert. Communicated

by Professor E. T. Whittaker, F.R.S. Issued separately May 29, 1918,

10. Note on the Strathmore Meteorite of 1917 Dec. 3. By Professor R. A. Sampson.

Issued separately May 29, 1918, .