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General Meeting, January 12th, 1909. 



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

 in the Cliair. 



Mr. Hermann Henry Hoffert, D.Sc. (Lond.), Associate 

 of the Royal School of Mines, His Majesty's Inspector of 

 Schools, Lime Grove, Brooklands, Sa/e, was elected an ordinary 

 member of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, January 12th, 1909. 



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 President expressed his warm congratulations and 

 those of his fellow members to Professor E. Rutherford, 

 F.R.S., on the signal honour recently conferred on him by 

 the award to him of the Nobel Prize for his researches on 

 Radio-activity. Professor Rutherford, who was present, briefly 

 responded, and said the Society was known and honoured in 

 Norway for its association with the name and work of Dalton. 



Dr. F. W. Gamble, F.R.S., Secretary of the Society, 

 read a paper entitled "The Influence of Light on the 

 Colouration of certain Marine Animals {Hippolyte, 

 Wrasses)." 



The author gave an account of his work on the colour- 

 physiology of Hippolyte {the Aesop-prawn), and of one of the 

 common British Wrasses {Crenilabrus melops). 



Hippolyte is a variably coloured prawn, each colour-variety 

 agreeing closely with the tint of the weed on which it is found, 



