Proceedings. 145 



Ordinary Meeting, March 8th, 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. 



It was announced that the Annual Meeting would be 

 held on Tuesday, the 26th, instead of the 19th of April 

 (Easter Tuesday). 



A question was raised as to the possibility of a human 

 flying machine. Professor REYNOLDS stated that the 

 limits of size were determined by the strength of the 

 material used. The machine must be strong enough, light 

 enough, and go fast enough, and the less efficient as a 

 flying machine the faster it must go. The difficulty was 

 not one of kinematics or construction of the machine, but 

 in the conditions under which the machine must be used. 



Dr. SCHUNCK read a paper, entitled " Notes on some 

 Ancient Dyes." The materials examined by Dr. ScilUNCK 

 were supplied by Mr. Flinders Petrie through Mr. R. D. 

 DARBISHIRE, and are mainly scraps of woollens, fillings from 

 coffins from tombs in Lower Egypt, of date about 400 or 

 500 A.D. The discussion which followed turned mainly on 

 the methods of producing the fabrics, some of which were 

 of the nature of what are called dhooties, and some seemed 

 to be produced by the aid of a jacquard loom. 



