xxiv. Proceedings. [May 8th, ipiy. 



A Paper by Mr. J. W. Perry, B.A., entitled "An Ethno- 

 logical Study of Warfare," was then read by Professor G. 

 Elliot Smith, M.A., M.D., F.R.S. 



This paper is printed in full in the Me?noirs. 



Mr. T. A. Coward, F.Z.S., F.E.S., then read the short notes 

 of Mr. A. Loveridge, on " The Nesting Habits of the Palm 

 Swift, Tachornis parva (Liicht)," from observations he made on 

 a colony of thip species at Morogoro, German East Africa. 



These notes are printed in the Memoirs. 



Ordinary Meeting, May 8th, 1917. 



The President, Mr. William Thomson, F.R.S. E., F.I.C., F.C.S., 



in the Chair. 



A vote of thanks was accorded the donor of the book upon 

 the table. 



Mr. R. F. GWYTHER read a paper entitled " The Speci- 

 fication of Stress." Part V. " The formal Solution of the 

 Statical Stress Equations, and a Theory of Displacement 

 as consequent on Stress." 



This paper will be printed in the Me?noirs. 



A paper was afterwards read by Dr. E. Newbery, entitled 

 " Recent Work on Overvoltage." 



This paper is also printed in full in the Memoirs. 



