xviii Proceedings. [Manh 2jrd, icjog. 



General Meeting, March 23rd. 1909. 



Professor A. Schuster, Sc D., I'.R.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. W. W. Haldane Gee, A.M.I.E.E., P.Sc, M.Sc. 

 Tech., I'rofessur of Pure and Apphed Physics, Manchester 

 School of Technoloyy, was elected an ordinary member of the 

 Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, March 23rd, 1909. 

 Professor A. Schustek, Sc.D, P.R.S., in tlie Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors 

 of the books upon the tables, and also to Mr. Prancis 

 Nicholson, P.Z.S., for presenting to the Society's Library the 

 following volumes: — "Nicholson's Journal," vols, i — 5, 1778 — 

 1802 ; " Gilbert's Annalen der Physik," vols. 61 — 72, 1819 — 

 1822 ; "Studies in Anatomy from the Anatomical Department of 

 the Owens College," vols, i, 2, 1S91, 1900, "Studies from the 

 Physiological Laboratory of Owens College," vol. i, 1891, 

 " Handbook of the Manchester Meeting of the liritish Associa- 

 tion," 1887, and "Excursions of the British Association, Man- 

 chester," 1887. 



Mr. D. IVL S. Watson, 13. Sc, who represented the Society 

 at the Jubilee Celebration of the Geological Society of Glasgow, 

 on Januaiy 28th, 1909, gave a brief account of the Proceedings 

 on tliat occasion. 



Mr. C. E. Stkomeyer, M.Inst.CE., exhibited some pieces 

 of mild steel of which one had been made very brittle by contact 

 with a caustic soda solution of a density of about 100" Twaddle, 

 whilst the other, through having l)een suspendrd in a cast iron 

 vessel in which caustic soda was l)cing conccnlraled beyontl 

 100" Twaddle, had lost about jVths of its diameter in 340 hours. 



