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such a manner as to be capable of photographic development, 

 and thus the track of each ray is made evident under the micro- 

 scope as a dotted line in the negative. 



Ordinary Meeting, May 12th, 19 14. 



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. Amongst these were: ^^ Photographic Afaguiiudes oj 

 S/ars brighter than g'"^o bet^veeu Deciifiation -^ 7j° and the Pole,'^ 

 (4to., London, 19 13), and '■'■ Fositioti of the Su?is Axis, as deter- 

 mined from Photographs of the Sit?i...iS'/4 to igi2" (4to., 

 London, 191 3), presented by the Royal Observatory, Green- 

 wich ; and " An Artilterynian's Diary" by J. Lloyd Jones 

 (Original Papers, No. 8) (8vo , n.p., 1914), presented by the 

 Wisconsin History Commission, Wisconsin. 



New exchanges have been arranged with the State University 

 of Iowa, Iowa City [Contributions), and with the Washington 

 University, St. Louis (Studies). The exchange with the Archi- 

 tekten-und Ingenieur-Verein [Zeitschrift fir Architektur und 

 Ingenieurweseti) has been discontinued. 



Dr. J. R. AsHWORTH read a paper entitled, "Note on the 

 Intrinsic Field of a Magnet." 



This paper is printed in full in the Metnoirs. 



Mr. F. R. Lankshear, B.A., M.Sc, read a paper entitled, 

 " Quantitative Absorption Spectra, Part I. The chem- 

 ical significance of absorption spectra and the methods 

 of examining them." 



This paper is printed in full in the Memoirs. 



