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The Council has had under consideration the question 

 of introducing the electric light to replace gas in parts of 

 the Society's house, Mr, Henry Wilde, F.R.S., having 

 generously offered to defray the cost of wiring-up and 

 supplying the necessary fittings. 



The Librarian reports that during the past year upwards 

 of 250 volumes have been bound, but there are still many sets 

 of publications that require binding. Every week the library 

 is receiving valuable additions, and it is important that they 

 should be promptly bound. Amongst other works added 

 during the year are the following authors and compilers' 

 presentation copies : — 



James E. Keeler. " Elementary Principles governing the Efficiency 



of Spectroscopes for Astronomical purposes." 

 A. LiVERSiDGE. " On Some New South Wales and other Minerals." 



F. Bashforth, B.A. Reprint of " A Description of a Machine for 

 finding the Numerical Roots of Equators." 



Darab Dashir Peshotan Sanjana, B.A. " The Position of Zoro- 

 astrian Women in Remote Antiquity." 



Henry Wilde, F.Iv.S. " On the Origin of Elementary Substances and 

 on some New Relations of their atomic weights." 



J. P. Thompson. " Practical Suggestions to Travellers." 



T. C. Johnston. " Did the Phoenicians Discover America ? " 



James Henry. "^Eneidea, or Critical, Exegetical, and ^Esthetical 

 remarks on the vEneis." Indices. 



Alexander Ireland. "Address on the Moral Influence of Free 

 Libraries." 



Sheridan Lea. " The Chemical Basis of the Animal Body." 

 VOLTA Bureau. "Notes and Observations upon the Education of the 

 Deaf." 



J. E. Keeler. " The Spectroscope of the Alleghany Observatory." 



Dr. Heinrich Hertz. " Untersuchungen ueber die Ausbreitung Der 

 Elektrischen Kraft." 



G. Dewalque. " Observations sur la Correlation des Diverses Bandes." 



S. C. DOTT. M. Rajna. " Suir Excursione Diurna della Declinazione 

 Magnetica a Milano." 



Lothar Meyer. "Grandztige der Theoretischen Chemie." 



