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" due to the work carried out by Brodie in the Chemical 

 " Laboratory of the Oxford Museum. 



"We have watched with the keenest interest the exten- 

 " sions of the Oxford Museum and tlie widening scope of its 

 " activities and usefuhiess ; we are glad to recognise that this 

 "increase accompanies and symbolises the growth inOxford 

 "of a new sympathy for scientific study and research, which 

 "now take their i)lace, honoured and giving honour, side by 

 " side with the older learning." 



Signed 



On behalf of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical 



Society. 



President. 



Sept. 2gtk, igo8. Honorary Secretaries. 



The terms of the address, and the offer of the President to 



represent the Society were unanimously approved of. 



Addresses were given by Professor H. B. Dixon and 

 Professor E. Rutherford on matters of interest in connection 

 with the meeting of the British Association at Dublin. 



Professor Dixon briefly reviewed the work of the Chemical 

 Section, making special reference to papers by Sir Wm. Ramsay 

 on the transmutation of copper into lithium and neon under the 

 influence of radium emanation, and the controversy which 

 gathered about them ; and to the photographs, exhibited by 

 Professor Dewar, of the apparatus used by Dr. Kamerlingh 

 Onnes in the liquefaction of Helium. 



Professor Rutherford gave rapid summaries of a number 

 of papers read before the Physical and Meteorological Section 

 by Dr. Hale, Mr. W. Makower, Dr. Stansfield, and others. 

 The work of Dr. Duffield on the influence of pressure on arc 

 spectra was enlarged on, and the chief points in the discussion 

 on the isothermal layer in the upper atmosphere were enumerated. 

 The latter remarks gave rise to a further discussion on this 

 interesting subject, in which Mr. C E. Stromeyer, Mr. R. F. 

 Gwyther, and others took part. 



