iv Procekdincs. {^November I ^tJi, I Sgc). 



Under certain conditions tlicre appears extending througli the 

 water, from one orifice to the other, a "thread" apparently 

 formed of air. 



Professor Reynolds suggested that the phenomenon might 

 be explained by the inflow producing a circulation of the water 

 having its vortex parallel between the two outlets, thus permitting 

 a passage of air from one side to the other, 



A paper by Mr. Peter Cameron, entitled : " Hymen- 

 optera Orientalia ; or, Contributions to a Knowledge 

 of the Hymenoptera of the Oriental Zoological Region. 

 Part IX. The Hymenoptera of the Khasia Hills. 

 Second Paper," was communicated by Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, 

 M.A., F.L.S., the specimens described being exhibited. 



The paper will be published by instalments in the Memoirs. 



Miss Winifred Faraday, B.A., read a paper " On the 

 Question of Irish Influence on Early Icelandic Litera- 

 ture, as illustrated by the Irish MSS. in the Bodleian 

 Library," (communicated by Mr. 1'". J. Faraday, F.L.S.). 



The paper is printed in full in the Memoirs. 



Professors Toller and Strachan and Mr. Mark Stirrup took 

 part in the discussion. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 14th, 1899. 

 Horace Lami;, M.A., P\R.S., President, in the Chair. 



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

 books upon the table. 



Mr. W. E. HoYLE exhibited a series of flint instruments, «S:c., 

 from Egypt, forming part of a large collection obtained by 

 Professor Flinders Petrie during the past winter in excavating 

 about twenty miles of cemetery in the western desert between 

 Hu and Dendereh, and since presented to the Manchester 

 Museum. 'Phese belonged to various periods, from pre-historic 



