January 13th, ipij.] PROCEEDINGS. xv 



Ordinary IMeeting, January 13th, 1914. 



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

 in the Chair. 



A vote of thanks was accorded the donors of the books 

 upon the table. These included : " Beschreibiing dcr Griechis- 

 chefi Autonomen Mu)ize7i im besitze der KUn. Akademte der 

 WissenschafteJi zu Amsterdam''' (410, Amsterdam, 19 13), and 

 ''Afuaryllis" (8vo., Amsterdam, 1913), presented by the K. 

 Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Amsterdam ; " Dwi?ie Love 

 Vindicated,'' by H. W. Southworth (8vo., London [1911]), pre- 

 sented by the author ; " Chippewa Music — //.," by F. Densmore 

 (8vo., Washington, 1913), presented by the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology ; " Catalogue of LoaJi Exhibiiioji of Paintings... 

 February and March, igij" (4to., Cardiff, 1913), and ^'■Hand- 

 book to the Exhibition of Welsh Antiquities, June-October, igij" 

 (4to., Cardiff, 1913), presented by the National Museum of 

 Wales ; " Katalog und Ephemeriden verdnderlicher Sterne filr 

 igi4^^ by Ernest Hartwig (Svo., Leipzig, 1913), presented by 

 the Remeis-Sternwarte, Bamberg ; and "Zd'x Prix Nobel en igi2 " 

 (Svo., Stockholm, 1913), presented by the K. Vetenskap- 

 Akademie, Stockholm. 



Professor G. Elliot Smmh, M.D., F. R.S., showed a series 

 of photographs of the Piltdown skull, taken by his assistant, 

 Mr. Henry GoodinK, which revealed a number of features putting 

 beyond all doubt the accuracy of the reconstruction of the 

 skull which he demonstrated to the Society two months ago. 



A paper, entitled " Some Notes on the Measurement 

 of Air Velocities, Pressures and Volumes," was read by 

 Mr. William Cramp, M.LE.E., M.Sc.Tech. 



This paper will be printed in full in the Memoirs. 



