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The insects are preserved in a light grey laminated shale, 

 and the fossiliferous deposit was evidently of fresh water origin, 

 and appears to belong to the Tertiary age. 



The collection, which is the property of the Manchester 

 Museum, is one of very great interest, as no fossil insects from 

 Japan have previously been des';ribed. 



Mr. R. L. Taylor, F.C.S., F.I.C , gave some further notes 

 on the Separation of Cobalt and Nickel. He referred to a 

 former paper in which he had described a modification of Rose's 

 method (barium or calcium carbonate in presence of chlorine or 

 bromine). In that paper he had pointed out that various con- 

 ditions caused a remarkable retardation in the precipitation of 

 the cobalt. He now proposes the use of magnesium carbonate 

 instead of calcium or barium carbonate, and finds that with this 

 there is practically no uncertainty in the action. 



Mr. H. Bateman, M.A., read a paper entitled "On some 

 Questions connected with the Constitution of the 

 Atom." A portion of this paper is published in the Memoirs 



under the title "A Method of Calculating the Number of 

 Degrees of Freedom of a Molecule among which the 

 Partition of Energy is governed by the Principal 

 Temperature." 



General Meeting, November 3rd, 1908. 



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

 in the Chair. 



Mr. Charles Frederick Smith, M.I.E.E., Lecturer in 

 Electrical Engineering in the School of Technology, Manchester 

 University ; Mr. William Cramp, M.I.E.E., Consulting 

 Engineer, 20, Mount Street, Manchester; Mr. J. A. Reekie, 

 Manager of the Hayfield Printworks, Woodhouse, Hayfield, were 

 elected ordinary members of the Society. 



