Proceedings. 141 



General Meeting, February 23rd, 1892. 



Edward Schunck, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S., President, in 

 the Chair. 



Mr. R. M. Pankhurst, LL.D., Barrister-at-Law, St. 

 James's Square, Manchester, and the Rev. CANON JULIUS 

 LLOYD, M.A., Kersal, Manchester, were elected ordinary 

 members. 



Ordinary Meeting, February 23rd, 1892. 



Edward Schunck, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.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 theory of Mr. HENRY WlLDE, 

 F.R.S., and his experiments respecting the variation in the 

 direction of the magnetic needle, and Mr. FARADAY pointed 

 out that Mr. Charles A. Schott, of the United States Geodetic 

 Survey, had stated that he had records of magnetic variations 

 with which Mr. WlLDE was not acquainted, and that when 

 these were used as tests, in addition to the large number 

 of verifications Mr. WlLDE had presented, the latter's theory 

 still held good. 



Dr. SCHUNCK, in pursuance of remarks made at the 

 previous meeting, read a letter from Colonel Drinkwater, 

 one of the officers of the Manchester Regiment during the 

 siege of Gibraltar, accompanying a copy of a work on the 

 battle of St. Vincent, presented by him to the Society in 

 1797. In this communication Colonel Drinkwater acknow- 

 ledged the authorship of the work named. 



