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of 1870 he acted as bearer in the ambulance corps of Bonn 

 students. By his death we have lost one of those who have 

 made the century remarkable for the progress of science. 



The following papers and communications have been read, 

 or will be read before the close of the session, at the ordinary 

 meetings of the Society : — 



October 2ncl, 1888. 



"An account of Hertz's experiments showing the propagation of electrical 

 vibrations in direct accordance with Maxwell's theory of light as an 

 electro-magnetic phenomenon." By R. F. Gwyther, M.A. 



" Incompleteness of Combustion in Gaseous Explosions. By Prof. Harold 

 B. Dixon, F.R.S., and H. W. Smith, B.Sc. 



October i6th, 1888. 



" On the excessive aliundance o^ Aphis dianthi, Schr., round Manchester 

 in September, i888." By P. Cameron. Communicated by John 

 Boyd, Esq. 

 "A decade of new HyDtejioptcra.^'' By P. Cameron. Communicated 

 by John Boyd, Esq. 



October 30th, 1888. 



" A New System of Logical Notation," by Joseph John Murphy. Com- 

 municated by the Rev. Robert Harley, M.A., F.R.S., Corresponding 

 iSIember. 



"Electrolysis under Pressure." By W. W. Haldane Gee, B.Sc, and 

 Henry Holden, M.Sc. 



November 13th, 18S8. 



" The Permanence of Oceanic Basins." By Professor W. C. Williamson, 

 LL.D., F.R.S., and Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A., F.R.S., &c. 



November 27th, 1888. 



"An historical account of the spectroscopic evidence in support of the 

 hypothesis that oxygen exists in the sun, with special reference to 

 M. Janssen's recent researches on telluric oxygen and aqueous vapour 

 lines and bands." By F. J. Faraday, F.L.S. 



December nth, 1888. 



" Note on the behaviour of Iodine in the presence of Borax." By James 

 Bottomley, D.Sc. 



"Notes on some of the peculiar properties of Glass." By William 

 Thomson, F. R.S.Ed., F.I.C., F.C.S. 



"On the British Species oi AUotrina:, with descriptions of other new 

 species of Parasitic Cynipidcv" By P. Cameron. Communicated Ijy 

 John Boyd, Esq. 



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