xii Proceedings. {January iph, igo8. 



Comintssie in Nederlandsch-Indic voor Oudheid kicndig Onder- 

 zoek ... iQOj-o6" (8vo., Batavia, 1907), presented by the 

 Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen ; 

 '■^ Flora Capensis,'^ vol. 4, sect, i, pt. 4 (8vo., London, 1907), 

 purchased; '■'■ Bydrostatical Paradoxes''' (i6nio., Oxford, 1666); 

 " The Origine of Formes and Qualities'" (i2mo., Oxford, 1667); 

 ^'Tracts" (i6mo., London, 1672); " The Mechanical Origine... 

 of divers Particular Qualities'''' (i6mo., London, 1676), by 

 Robert Boyle, presented by Professor H. B., Dixon, F.R.S. ; 

 '•''Codex diplomaticus Lusatiae superioris //>'.". ..Hft. 3, von R. 

 Jecht (8vo., Gorlitz, 1907), presented by the Oberlausitzische 

 Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften ; '•'' Seismogramme des nord- 

 pazifischen u. siidamerik. Erdbebens, 16 Aug., igo6 " [with 

 Diagrams], von E. Rudolph u. E. Tarns (4to. and fob, Strass- 

 burg i. E., 1907); '•'■ Katalog der im Jahre ig04 registrierteii 

 Seismischen Siornngen" von E. Rosenthal (4to., Strassburg i. E., 

 1907); "Z^5 Tremblenients de Terre resseniis pendant Fannie, 

 1904," par E. Oddone (4to., Strassburg i. E., 1907), presented by 

 Professor A. Schuster, F.R.S. 



The President briefly referred to the death of Lord Kelvin, 

 and mentioned that he had, in his capacity as President, 

 represented the Society at the burial in Westminster Abbey, and 

 at his suggestion it was resolved that the Society express, 

 through their Council, to the family of the deceased man of 

 science, their sense of the great loss sustained, through Lord 

 Kelvin's death, by the world of science, and by this Society, of 

 which he had been an Honorary Member since 1851. 



Mr. T. A. Coward, F.Z.S., exhibited a live specimen of the 

 Greater Horse Shoe Bat { Rhinolophus ferrtwi-equinum) and 

 briefly described its chief peculiarities. 



Dr. E. C. Edgar read a paper entitled "The Atomic 

 weight of Chlorine," which is printed in the Memoirs. 



Mr. A. Brothers read a paper entitled '* On the Pro- 

 duction of Photographs in the Colours of Nature," 



