October i^ih, fpi2.] Prockedings. v 



General Meeting, October 15th, 191 2. 



Mr. Francis Jones, M.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.C.S., Vice-President 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. J. C. Maxwell Garnett, M.A. (Cantab.), Principal of 

 the Municipal School of Technology, Manchester; Mr. Miles 

 Walker, M.A., M.I.E.E., Professor of Electrical Engineering, 

 The Municipal School of Technology, Manchester, T/ie Cottage, 

 Leicester Road, Hale, Altrincham ; Mr. D. M. Fairlie, M.Sc. 

 (Mane), Demonstrator in Electro-Chemistry, The Municipal 

 School of Technology, Manchester; Mr. R. Stephen Adamson, 

 M.A., B.Sc, Lecturer in Botany, The University, Manchester ; 

 Mr. W. B. Bkierley, M.Sc. (Mane), Lecturer in Economic 

 Botany, The University, Manchester; and Mr. John McFarlane, 

 M.A. (Edinb.), B.A. (Cantab.), M.Com. (Mane), Lecturer in 

 Geography, The University, Manchester, were elected ordinary 

 members of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 15th, 1912. 



Mr. Francis Jones, M.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.C.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



A vote of thanks was given to the donors of the books upon 

 the table. These included volumes I. — XX. of the '■'■Annals of 

 Botany " (8vo., London, 188 7- 1906), presented by The President, 

 Professor F. E. Weiss ; and " Subject List oj Works on Mineral 

 Lndustries . . .in the Library of the Patent Office,'' Pt. i, New 

 Series, WN — XN 39 (i6rao., London, 191 2), presented by the 

 Patent Office, London. 



Professor G. Elliot Smith, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., exhibited 

 lantern slides of a Second Dynasty Egyptian coffin in the 

 collection of the Manchester Museum, and made some remarks 

 as to its bearing upon the theory of megalithic monuments 

 presented by him at the last Meeting. 



