Meeting of 13 November 1885

Location: Edinburgh Institution, Edinburgh

Chair: Thom, George

Papers:
Thomson, William: "On a theorem in determinants", [Title]
Mackay, John Sturgeon: "The ancient methods for the duplication of the cube"
Harvey, William: "Notes on Euclid I.47 (the theorem of Pythagoras)"
Barclay, Andrew Jeffrey Gunion: "On Physical Science in Schools", [Abstract]

Office-bearers:
President: Ferguson, Robert McNair
Vice-President: Thom, George
Secretary: Fraser, Alexander Yule
Treasurer: Alison, John
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Muir, Thomas
Allardice, Robert Edgar
Barclay, Andrew Jeffrey Gunion
Macdonald, William James
Mackay, John Sturgeon
Peddie, William

The financial statement, showing a balance so far as it had been impossible to settle accounts in favour of the society of £2/5/10, was read and approved.

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