464 General Monthly Meeting. [Feb. 1, 



Society of Arts — Journal for Dec. 190B and Jan. 1904. 8vo. 



Statisticcd Society, i?o?/a/— Journal, Vol. LXVI. Part 4. 8v.>. 1903. 



Stoney, G. Johnstone, Esq., F.B.S. M.B.I. (the Author)— B.o\f to Simplify British 



Weiirlits and Measures. Svo. 190:>. 

 Tacchini, Prof. P., Hon. Mem. R.I. (the Author) — Memorie della Societa degli 



Spettroscopisti Italian!, Vol. XXXII. Disp. 12^ 4to. 1903. 

 Thompson, S. P. Esq., F.E.S. M.M.I. (the Author)— QiVoext of Colchester, The 

 Father of Electrical Science. Svo. 1903. 

 Gilbert: Physician. Svo. 1903. 

 United Service Institution, Royal — Journal for Dec. 1903 and Jan. 1904. Svo. 

 United States Department of Agriculture — Monthly Weather Review for Sept. 1903. 

 4to. 

 Atmospheric Radiation. By F. W. Very. 4to. 1903. 

 Studies among Snow Crystals, By W. A. Bentley. 4to. 1903. 

 Semi-diurnal Tides in Northern Part of Indian Ocean. Bv R. A. Harris. 4to. 



1903. 

 Experiment Station Record, Aug.-Dec. 1903. Svo. 

 United States Geological Survey — Bulletin, Nos. 209-217. Svo. 1903. 



Monographs, XL IV. XLV. and Atlas. 4to. 1903. 

 United States Patent Office— Omcial Gazette, Vol. CVII. Nos. 5-9 ; Vol. CVIII. 



Nos. 1-3. 4to. 1903-4. 

 Verein zur Beforderung des Gewerhfleisses in Preussen — Verhandlungen, 1903, 



Heft 10. 4to. 

 Vienna, Imperial Geological Institute — Verhandlungen, 1903, Nos. 12-15. Svo. 



Jahrbuch, 1903, Heft 1, 2. Svo. 

 Western Society of Engineers — Journal, Vol. VIII. No. 6. Svo. 1903. 

 Yorhshire Archseological Society — Journal, Part 6S. Svo. 1903. 



WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 



Iriday, February 5, 1904. 



His Gkace The Duke of Northumberland, K.G. D.C.L. F.E.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



Alfred Austin, Esq., B.A., Poet Laureate. 



The Growing Distaste for the Higher Kinds of Poetry. 



[A report of this Discourse appears in the " Fortnightly Review," March. 1904.] 



