October y til, I ijijl'X rkCH'KKDiNC.s. iii 



1 91 3), and " Deterniination of Time, Longitude, Latitude, and 

 Azimuth," by VV. Howie (Special Publication, No. 14), (4to., 

 Washington, 191 3), presented by the United States Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, Washington, D.C. ; "^ History of the First 

 Half-Century of the National Academy of Sciences, i86j-igrj" 

 (4to., Washington, D.C, 1913), presented by the National 

 Academy of Sciences, Washington; "■ Rafporten van de Com- 

 missie in Nederlandsch-Indi'd voor Oudheidkiiiidig Onderzoek op 

 Java, en Afadoera" (8vo , Batavia, etc., 1913), presented by the 

 Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, 

 Batavia. 



Mr. Nicholson thanked the Members of the Society for 

 the honour they had done him in electing him to the 

 Presidency. 



Mr. William Ckamp, M.Sc.Tech., M.I.E.E., exhibited 

 and made some remarks upon a Brabbee tube, used for 

 measuring air quantities, velocities and pressures. 



The Presiolnt reported that on September 26th last 

 a Wheat-Ear had been observed by Mr. Idle, of the Manchester 

 Reference Library, on the old Infirmary site, where it remained 

 for two or three days, feeding on insects and appearing as much 

 at home as if it were in its natural surroundings on the hilly 

 districts of the north of England. Mr. Nicholson commented 

 also on the presence of Starlings in the same locality during 

 the past summer, and further visits by Wheat-Ears on two 

 dates at the end of August. 



The Pkesidknt read an inaugural address on "The 

 Old Manchester Natural History Society and Its 

 Museum." 



This Address is printed in full in the Alenidrs. 



Professor F. E. Wkiss read a paper, entitled "Juvenile 

 Flowering in Eucalyptus globulus P 



This paper will be printed in full in the Memoirs. 



