Proceedings. 153 



Ordinary Meeting, February 5th, 1889. 



• Professor OsBORNE Reynolds, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



Mr. F. J. Faraday read a letter from M. C. Tondini de 

 Quarenghi, stating that the French Minister of PubHc 

 Instruction had informed him that he proposed to invite a 

 conference in Paris this year to resume the consideration of 

 the question of the unification of time and the adoption 

 internationally of a common meridian for scientific purposes, 

 or, in other words, to take up the work of the unsuccessful 

 congress held at Washington. 



Dr. BOTTOMLEY read a paper entitled, " On the equation 

 to the instantaneous surface generated by the dissolution of 

 an isotropic solid." 



