xxxii Proceedings. {February iSth,igo2. 



General Meeting, February i8th, 1902. 



Charles Bailey, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. William E. Moss, B.A., Cotton Broker, Liverpool, 

 was elected an ordinary member of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, February i8th, 1902. 

 Charles Bailey, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



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

 books upon the table. Attention was called to the following 

 donations to the Society's Library : — " A Guide to the Shell and 

 Starfish Galleries , . . British Museum {Natural History)" (8vo., 

 London, 1901), and ^^ Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the 

 Department of Geology, British Musemn {Natural History). The 

 Jurassic Flora. I. The Yorkshire Coast,'' by A. C. Seward (Bvo., 

 London, 1900), presented by the Trustees; ''The Letters of 

 Faraday and Schoenbein, 1836-1862" edited by G. W. A. 

 Kahlbaum and F. V. Darbishire (Bvo., Bale and London, 1899), 

 and " The Letters of J. J. Berzelius and C F. Schimbein, 1836- 

 1847," edited by G. W. A. Kahlbaum (8vo., London, 1900), 

 presented by Dr. Francis V. Darbishire; and H. Geitel's " Ueber 

 die Amvendung der Lehre von den Gasionen auf die Erschienungen 

 der atmosphdrischen Elektricitdt" (8vo., Braunschweig, 1901), 

 presented by the author. 



Mr. Francis Nicholson exhibited, and presented to the 

 Society, two books entitled " Lectures on Electricity " (1842) and 

 " A Course of Twelve Elementary Lectures on Galvanism " 

 (1843), by WiUiam Sturgeon, a former member of the Society. 



Mr. Thomas Thorp mentioned the occurrence of two 

 explosions of silvering solution, similar to those which he had 

 referred to in 1900, and emphasised the danger arising from 

 keeping this liquid after it has once been prepared. 



