October 2gth, ipi2.] Proceedings. vii 



Ordinary Meeting, October 29th, 191 2. 



The President, Professor F. E. Weiss, D.Sc, F.L.S., in the Chair. 



A vote of thanks was accorded the donors of the books 

 upon the table. These included : "A Dictionary of the Biloxi 

 and Ofo Lafigiiages" by J. O. Dorsey and J. R. Swanton (8vo., 

 Washington, 191 2), and '■'' Earlv Man in South Atnerica" by 

 Ale.s Hrdlicka and (nhers (8vo., Washington, 191 2), presented 

 by the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Mr. Thomas Kay, J-P-, exhibited sketches of the three 

 voltaic experimental piles of Alessandro Volta — the perpendicular 

 form (with a model of the original), another form in the dry 

 plates, and one in wet tubes. Mr. Kay also showed a sketch 

 of the bust of Volta in the Museum at Como, and a daguerreo- 

 type of Michael Faraday, D.C.L., and John Frederick Daniel!, 

 D.C.L., taken at Beard's Gallery in London, 1841, obtained 

 from Dancer, the Manchester optician. 



Dr. KukT LoEWENFELD read a paper entitled "The 

 importance of autograph documents in the History of 

 Science'" (Part I.). 



The paper will be printed in full in the Memoirs. 



General Meeting, November T2th, 191 2. 



The President, Professor F. E. Weiss, D.Sc, F.L.S., 

 in the Chair. 



Miss Marjorie Lindsey, B.Sc, Research Student in the 

 Victoria University of Manchester, was elected an ordinary 

 member of the Society. 



