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that some Eoliths were the work of human hands, he looked 

 upon them as belonging to the Palaeoliiliic Period, and criticised 

 the classification of M. Rutot as an effort to push the first 

 appearance of man on the earth to as early a period as possible, 

 regardless of the evidence both biological and geological. 



Ordinary Meeting, December 15th, 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 tables. The following were among the recent 

 accessions to the Society's Library: — '■'■Neue Untersiichimgen 

 iiber die Reifung imd BefruchtiDig^^'' von F. Vejdovsky (fob, Prag, 

 1907) and " Un/ersuchungen iiber die klitnatischen Vcrhaltnisse 

 von Beirut^ Syrieii" von S. Kostlivy (4to., Prag, 1905), 

 presented by the K. Bohmische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften 

 Prag; '•'• Report on a recent Discovery of Gold near Lake 

 Megantic, Quebec^' by J. A. Dresser (8vo , Ottawa, 1908), 

 " Report on a portion of Conrad and Whitehorse mining districts, 

 Yukoti^'' by D. D. Cairnes (8vo., Ottawa, 1908), '■'■Preliminary 

 Report on a part of the Similkameen district, British Colmnbia" 

 by C. Camsell (8vo., Ottawa, 1907), and "•Preliminary 

 Report on a portion of the Mai?i Coast of British Columbia" 

 etc.,... by O. E. Leroy (8vo., Ottawa, 1908), presented by the 

 Geological Survey of Canada; '■'■Sketch of the Mineral Resources 

 of India^^ by T. H. Holland (4to., Calcutta, 1908), presented by 

 the Geological Survey of India, and "^ Monograph of the 

 British Des?Hidiacece," vol. 3, by W. and G. S. West (8vo., 

 London, 1908), purchased from the Ray Society. 



Mr. Waltkr Makowek, B.A., B.Sc, read a i)aper entitled, 

 " The Volatility of Radium A and Radium C." 



Mr. R. L. Tavi.ok, I'.C.S., F.I.C., read a pa[)er entitled, 

 " On the Production of White Ferrous Ferrocyanide." 



The papers will be printed in full in llie Memoirs. 



