February i%i/i, 19 19.] PROCEEDINGS. xi. 



The President exhibited a celluloid eyepiece from a German 

 gas mask, the inner surface of which had been treated in such 

 a manner that moisture would not condense on it and thus 

 interfere with vision. 



A paper by Mr. R. S. Adamson, M.A. and Miss Alison McK. 

 Crabtrek, entitled "The Herbarium of John Dalton," 



was read. 



This paper is printed in full in the Memoirs. 



Ordinary Meeting, February i8th, 19 19. 



The President, Mr William Thomson, F.R.S.E., F.I.C., F.C.S., 

 in the Chair. 



Dr. H. F. Coward, F.I.C, and Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson, 

 F.G.S., were nominated Auditors of the Society's Accounts for 

 the Session 1918-1919. 



Mr. C. E. Stromeyer, M.Inst. C.E., made a short com- 

 munication on a captured German gun in which a shell had 

 exploded in the breach, the pressure of the explosion having 

 produced ripple markings on the inner surface of the shell. 



The Honorary Secretary read a paper by Dr. H. Wilde, 

 FR.S., "On the Mutual Relations of Natural Science 

 and Natural Religion." 



Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson, F.G.S., read a paper entitled 

 " 'Shell-Pockets ' on Sand Dunes on the Wirral Coast, 

 Cheshire." 



The paper consisted of a short account of " Shell-Pockets " 

 in general, and contained remarks on the age of the buried land 

 surfaces in the neighbourhood. 



Mr. Jackson also read a paper entitled: "On a New 

 Middle Carboniferous Nautiloid {Coelonautilus trapezoi- 

 dalis.)' 



This paper is printed in full in the Memoirs. 



General Meeting, March 4th, 19 19. 



The President, Mr. William Thomson, F.R.S.E., F.I.C, F.C.S., 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. Edward Hardcastle, Bj-atiiall Mount, Davenport, 

 Stockport ; and Mr. Arthur Tindell Hopwood, g, Stamford 

 Road, Chorlton-cuvi-Hardy, Manchester ; were elected Ordinary 

 Members of the Society. 



