Fourth Series. Vol. 2 : No. 2. 



MEMOIRS AND PROCEEDINGS 



THE MANCHESTER 



LITERARY & PHILOSOPHICAL 



SOCIETY. 



1888-9. 



CONTENTS. 



Proceedings pp. 33—37, 38-41, 71—73 



Microscopical and Natural History Section - - pp. 38, 70 



Memoirs : — 



Notes on Some of the Peculiar Properties of Glass. 



By William Thomson. F.R.S.Ed., F.I.C., F.C.S. p. 42 



On the British Species of AUotrinae, with descriptions 

 of other new species of Parasitic Cynipidae. By 

 P. Cameron. Communicated by John Boyd, Esq. - p. 53 



On the unification in the measure of time, with special 

 reference to the contest on the initial meridian. By 

 C. Tondini de Quarenghi. Communicated by F. J. 

 Faraday, F.L.S. - - - - - - - P- 74 



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