January 2StIi, igoS.'] Proceedings. xv 



Ordinary Meeting, January 28th, 1908. 

 Professor H. B. Dixon, M.A., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the table. 



The President stated that on March 3rd, the occasion of 

 the Wilde Lecture, the Lecturer, Dr. J. Lakmor, Sec.R.S., would 

 be entertained at a dinner in his honour at the Midland Hotel, 

 and the price of the tickets would be 7s. 6d., and not los. 6d. 

 as formerly. 



The attention of the members was directed to the publi- 

 cations of the International Seismological Association which 

 were on the table and were presented to the Society by Professor 

 A. Schuster, F.R.S. They consisted chiefly of a number of 

 carefully prepared and important diagrams of earthquake move- 

 ments which occurred in the North Pacific and South America 

 in August, 1906. 



The thanks of the meeting were voted to Professor Schuster 

 for his interesting and valuable gift. 



At this point the chair was occupied by Professor H. Lamb, 

 LL.D., D.Sc, F.R.S. 



Mr. A. Stephenson read a paper entitled " On a New 

 Type of Dynamical Stability." 



The paper is printed in full in the Memoirs. 



General Meeting, February nth, 1908. 



Professor H. B. Dixon, M.A., F.R.S., President in the Chair. 



Mr. H. Bateman, B.A., Reader in Mathematical Physics in 

 the University of Manchester, was elected an ordinary member 

 of the Society. 



