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increase in tlie orbit of fliglil resulted in collision witli one of 

 the containinL,^ walls, and the bird instantly fluttered down to the 

 floor of the dungeon again. The bird, apparently, was not 

 injured by its collision with the wall ; the failure of the attempt 

 to escape seemed to be due solely to the loss of the momentum 

 and of the upward draft, so to speak ; with the result that tlie 

 force of gravity asserted itself over the momentum. One of the 

 youngest members of the party observing seemed to express 

 accurately the phenomenon by instantly exclaiming, "The poor 

 thing has not room to fly in." 



Annual General Meeting, April 24TH, 1900. 

 Horace Lamd, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



James Dewar, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., Fullerian Professor of 

 Chemistry in the Royal Institution, London ; James Alfred 

 Ewing, M.A., F.R.S., Professor of Mechanism and Applied 

 Mechanics, Cambridge ; Andrew Russell Forsyth, M.A., Sc.D., 

 F. R.S., Sadlerian Professor of Pure Mathematics, Cambridge ; 

 James Geikie, D.C.L., PL. 1)., F.R.S., Murchison Professor of 

 Geology and Mineralogy, Edinburgh ; Ernst H. P. A. Haeckel, 

 Professor of Zoology, Jena ; Henrik Anton Lorentz, Professor of 

 Physics, Leiden ; Robert Ridgway, Curator of the Department 

 of Birds, U.S. National Museum, Washington, U.S.A. ; and 

 Beauchamp Tower, M.Inst.C.E., 5, Queen Anne's Gate, London, 

 S.W., were elected honorary members. 



Miss Winifred Faraday. Ti.A., late Fellow of the Victoria 

 University, Member of the Icelandic Society of Copenhagen, 

 Lecturer in English Philology at the Manchester High School 

 for Girls, Ramsay Lodge, Slade Lane, Levenshulme, was elected 

 an ordinary member. 



The Secretary announced, in accordance with Rule 22 of 

 the Articles of Association, that the names of John Burke, 

 William Isaac Chadwick, ALiurice Julius Langdon, and Samuel 



