ii Proceedings. {^October lytli^iSgg. 



General Meeting, October 17th, 1899. 



Horace Lamb, M.A., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Joseph Inglehy, M.I.Mech.E., Marple Bridge; Mr. 

 Cieorge Huxley, M.T.Mech. I*:., Heaton Moor; and Mr. \\'. H. 

 Todd, Solicitor, Manchester, were elected ordinary Members. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 17th, 1899. 

 Horace Lamb, M.A., I\R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the table. 



The Secretary read the address which was recently 

 presented by the Society to Sir George G. Stokes, Bart., on the 

 occasion of the jubilee of his tenure of the Lucasian Professorship 

 of Mathematics at Cambridge University, and also the reply 

 received thereto. 



Professor Dixon stated that the restoration of Dalton's 

 tomb had been effected under the direction of the Committee 

 appointed, and that there remained a balance in hand of about 

 ^27. It was hoped to raise this sum tO;;{^t;o, and to form a 

 vested fund which would provide for any future repairs thit 

 might be necessary. 



The President announced the presentation to the Society 

 of a relic of John Dalton, in the shape of his diploma of honorary 

 membership of the Edinburgh INIedical Society, to which he was 

 elected in 1818. 



Mr. R. L. Taylor asked whether any member had verified 

 the statement made in Black's lectures that a bar of iron healed 

 to redness by hammering and allowed to cool, would not bear a 

 repetition of the experiment, but would crack, unless in the 

 meantime it had been re-heated in the fire. 



