MEMOIRS AND PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 4th, 1892. 



Professor ARTHUR Schuster, Ph.D., F.R.S., RR.A.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors 

 of the books upon the table. 



Reference was made to the deaths of three of the 

 members of the Society, Dr. CARL SCHORLEMMER, F.R.S., 

 Dr. J. E. Morgan, and the Rev. Canon Lloyd, since the 

 previous meeting of the Society. 



Mr. W. E. HOYLE, M.A., exhibited a specimen of 

 CallicJitJiys asper, remarkable for its resemblance in the 

 arrangement of the scales to the ganoid fishes of the coal 

 measures ; and also specimens of Scopehis antarctiais and 

 Argyropeleciis heniigymnus, deep sea fishes, the former from 

 a depth of 1,950 fathoms, and called attention to the 

 phosphorescent organs of these species, the structure of 

 which has been fully described by Dr. Von Lendenfeld, in 

 an appendix to Dr. Gunther's report on the deep-sea fishes 

 of the "Challenger" Expedition. 



Mr. W. Thomson referred to a case of electric shock 

 received by Mr. Joseph Collier, F.R.C.S., from rocks in 



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