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before mentioned, and having by that arranged the suspenders of the 

 warp threads, it then goes back, or towards the electro-magnets, to take 

 up, under the influence of the currents of electricity through the select- 

 ing teeth, the new arrangement of apertures required for the next cast 

 of the weft thread. 



The use of electricity, for the purpose of reading oiF the design and 

 conveying it into the loom involved many peculiarities, conditions, and 

 difficulties. These were considered ; and the manner in which they 

 were either turned to advantage or overcome, was illustrated by large 

 and separate experiments. 



[M. F.] 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, July 2, 1860. 



William Pole, Esq. M.A. F.R.S. Treasurer and Vice-President, 



in the Chair. 



The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to His Grace 

 the Duke of Wellington, K.G. Vice-President R.I. for his valuable 

 present of an Electrotype from a mask taken from his late Father, 

 F.M. the Duke of Wellington, after his decease. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

 table, and the thanks of the Members returned for the same : viz. 



From 

 Her Majesty's Government — Magnetical and Meteorological Observations at St. 



Helena. Vol. II. 1844-9. 4to. 1860. 

 The Secretary of State for India — Catalogue of Lepidopterous Insects in the East 



India House Museum. Vol. II, 8vo. 1858-9. 

 Commissioners in Lunacy — Fourteenth Report. 8vo. 1860. 

 Ansied, Professor D. T. {the Author) — Lecture on the Decay and Preservation of 



Building Materials (Stone). 1860. 

 Arts, Society o/*— Journal, June 1860. 8vo. 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal — Journal, No. 276. 8vo. 1860. 

 Astronomical Society, Royal — Proceedings, No. 7. Bvo. 1860. 

 Belgique, Acaddrnie Eoyale des Sciences — Bulletin des Sciences. 1859. 8vo. 



Annuaire. 1860. 16to. 

 Bengal, Director of Public Institution — Report for 1857-8. 8vo. 1859. 

 Boosey, Messrs. (the Publishers) — The Musical World for June 1860. 4to. 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science — Report of the Twenty -ninth 



Meeting, held at Aberdeen, September 1859. 8vo. 1860. 

 Chambers, G. F. Esq. M.R. I.— The Life of Baber, Emperor of Hindostan, by 



R. M. Caldecott. 8vo. 1844. 

 DruiU, Dr. {the ^uf^or)— Human Habitations !n Relation to Health. 4to. 1860. 



