X PROCKKniNGS. [November 26tk,igi 2, 



A new exchange has been arranged with the Faraday Society 

 (Transactions), London. 



Dr. H. H. HoFFERT exhibited an instrument called 'The 

 Rainbow Cup,' which was described by Mr. C. V. Boys, F. R.S., 

 at a recent meeting of the Royal Society. 



The President read a paper, entitled " On the root- 

 apex and young root of Lyginodendron." 



Dr. Kurt Loewenfeld read a paper on " The importance 

 of Autograph Documents in the History of Science" 

 (Part II.). 



These papers will be printed in full in the Memoirs. 



Ordinary Meeting, December loth, 1912. 



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

 in the Chair. 



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

 upon the table. 



The President drew attention to the loss the Society had 

 sustained by the death, on December 6th, of Mr. Arthur 

 McDougall, B Sc. Mr. McDougall, who was elected an ordinary 

 member on November 13th, 1866, had taken an active interest 

 i \ the welfare of the Society, and from 1902 to 1910 he held 

 the post of Treasurer. 



Mr. T. A. Coward, FZ.S., exhibited a fossil believed to 

 have been found in a brickfield near Timperley. The fossil, on 

 examination by Professor Weiss, proved to be a barrel-shaped 

 pith of a cycadean stem with small portions of the surrounding 

 wood, the superficial markings of the fossil being due to the 

 medullary rays. 



