Proceedings. 73 



General Meeting, January 8th, 1889. 



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

 President in the Chair. 



Mr. T. W. Brownell, of Manchester; Mr. CHARLES 

 James Heywood, of Pendleton ; and Mr. James Rait 

 Beard, of Longsight, were elected ordinary members. 



Ordinary Meeting, January 8th, 1889. 



Professor Osborne Reynolds, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The President mentioned that he had found by a calcu- 

 lation that the quantity of water passed per hour through 

 the condensers of the steamship "City of New York," with 

 18,000 horse-power, equalled the average consumption of 

 water per hour in Manchester. 



Mr. F. J. Faraday, F.L.S., communicated a paper by 

 M. C. Tondini de Ouarenghi, of the Bologna Academy of 

 Sciences, on "The unification of the measure of time, with 

 special reference to the contest on the initial meridian." 



