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MEMOIRS AND PROCEEDINGS 



OF / 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 2nd, 1888. 



Professor OsBORNE REYNOLDS, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



Reference was made by the PRESIDENT to the death of 

 Professor Rudolph Clausius of Bonn, elected an honorary 

 member of the Society in 1886, to whom, with Rankine 

 and Sir William Thomson, following Dr. Joule, belonged 

 the honour of developing the dynamical theory of heat. 



Mr. R. F. GwvTHER, M.A., gave an account of Hertz's 

 experiments, showing the propagation of electrical vibra- 

 tions in direct accordance with Maxwell's theory of light as 

 an electro-magnetic phenomenon. 



Professor H. B. DixON, F.R.S., read a paper on "Incom- 

 pleteness of Combustion in Gaseous Explosions." 



