xl Proceedings. \April iijtJi, igo2. 



General Meeting, April i5tli, 1902. 



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



Mr. Henry Hyde, Brooklands, was elected an ordinary 

 member ut the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, April 15th, 1902. 

 Charles Bailey, M.Sc, 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 accessions to the 

 Society's Library: — Mourlon's '■'■ Bibliographia Geologica" ^Qx\e 

 B, Tome 4 (8vo., Bruxelles, 1901), purchased; Matiegka's 

 ^' Bericht ilber die Untersuchung der Gebeine Tycho Bra/ie's" 

 (4to., Prag, 1 901), Studnicka's '■'■ Bericht iiber die asfrologischen 

 Studien des... Tycho Brahe^'' (4to., Prag, 1901), and '■'■Bericht 

 iiber die Saecularfeier der Erinnerung an das vor joo /ahren 

 erfolgte Ableben des... Tycho Brahe" (4to., Prag, 1902), presented 

 by the K. Bohmische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften ; J. 

 Willard Gibbs' ^'■Elementary Frincipies in Statical Mechanics" 

 (8vo., New York, 1902), presented by the author ; J. J. Gleave's 

 " Yorkshire Caves " (8vo., Manchester, n.d.), presented by the 

 author; " Broceediug^ of the International Engineering Cojigress, 

 Glasgow, igoi^^ 2 vols. (4to., London, 1902), and McLean's 

 " Local Industries of Glasgoiv and the West of Scotland" (8vo., 

 Glasgow, 1 901), presented by the International Engineering 

 Congress, 



Mr. F. J. Faraday exhibited an old copy of Chateaubriand's 

 " Atala," partly written in the huts of the American Indians in 

 Louisiana and Florida during the author's first visit to the New 

 AV'orld in 1789, and containing passages showing the continued 



