Noveviber ^th.igi^?^ PROCEEDINGS. v 



Ordinary Meeting, November 4lh, 1913. 



Ttie President, Mr. Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S., 

 in tiie Chair. 



A vote of thanks was accorded the donors of the books 

 upon the table. The accessions included: '•'■ Biography and 

 Unparalleled Discoveries of T. J. J. See," by W. L. Webb (8vo., 

 Lynn, Mass., 191 3), presented by the Author ; " The Menial 

 and Physical Life of School Children''' by Peter Sandiford (8vo., 

 London, 191 3), presented by the hw&iox ; Index to the Proceedings 

 of the Royal Society, Vols. 1-75, rSoo-rgos'' (8vo., London, 

 1913), purchased; ^' Acrididen Japans," by T. Shikari (Bvo., 

 Tokyo, 19 10) and " Monographic der Grylliden " von Formosa," 

 by T. Shikari (8vo, Taihoku, 191 1), presented by the Bureau 

 of Productive Lidustries, Government of Formosa. 



The President referred to the death of Mr. W. H. 

 SuTCLiFFE, F.G.S., a member of the Society, and the reader of 

 an important paper on "Some Modern Tendencies in Pre- 

 historic Anthropology" before the Society last March. 



Mr. G. P. Varlky, M.Sc, exhibited a fused mass of 

 common salt which had remained in a saturated solution of the 

 same substance for four years. The mass had lost its rounded 

 surface, and was covered with portions of large crystals. 



A small roll, examined at the British Museum and stated to 

 be a prayer or charm in Sanskrit, written in Tibetan script, was 

 shown by Mr. C L. Barnes, M.A. 



The President read an extract relating to certain plants, 

 Le., Rhus toxicodendron (the 'poison ivy'), and a species of 

 Primula, which are supposed to have been, on more than one 

 occasion, the cause of eczema and similar skin eruptions in 

 persons cultivating them or living in close proximity. 



