Chair: Muir, Thomas
Papers:
Chrystal, George: "Mathematical models, chiefly of surfaces of the second degree"
Tait, Peter Guthrie: "Theorem relating to the sum of selected binomial-theorem cofficients", [Title] [This theorem will be found in the Messenger of Mathematics (new series) Vol. XIII. pp. 154-155(1884)]
Elected:
Reid, William
Wishart, Robert
MacDonald, Farquhar
Muir, Andrew
King, John
Professor George Chrystal was exhibiting a large number of models in thread, cardboard and plaster of Paris.