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Professor Dixon then proceeded to describe the Home 

 Office Experimental Station at Eskmeals (Cumberland), in which 

 the actual conditions in a mine are imitated as nearly as possible. 

 This was illustrated by a number of lantern slides. 



General Meeting, February 4th, 191 3. 



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

 in the Chair. 



Mr. J. B. HuBRECHT, M.A., Special Lecturer in the Victoria 

 University of Manchester, of Northfield^ Knutsford^ Cheshire, was 

 elected an ordinary member of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, February 4th, 1913. 



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. Amongst these were : — " The Centenary of a 

 Nitieteenth Century Geologist : Edward William Binney, F.R.S.,'' 

 by James Binney (i2mo., Taunton, 191 2), presented by Mr. C. L. 

 Barnes, M. A. ; " Narratives of Indiaft Captivity " (8vo., Chicago, 

 1912), presented by the Newberry Library, Chicago; "■The 

 Lancashire Naturalist, ^^ Vols. 4 and 5 (8vo., Daiwen, 191 1-191 2), 

 presented by Mr. T. A. Coward, F.Z.S. ; and '■'■ Manufacturing iti 

 Philadelphia, i68j-igi2," by T. J. Macfarlane(8vo., Philadelphia, 

 191 2), presented by the Philadelphia Commercial Museum. 



Mr. G. P. Varlev, M.Sc, and Mr. Arthur Adamson, 

 M.Sc.Tech., A.R.C.S., were nominated Auditors of the Society's 

 accounts for the session 191 2-1 3. 



