March 2jrd, /pop.] PROCEEDINGS. xix 



Dr. Hknrv Wii.dk, 1'M\..S., read a paper enlitled "On the 

 Moving Force of Terrestrial and Celestial Bodies in 

 relation to the Attraction of Gravitation. ' The paper is 

 printed in tlie A/emoirs. 



Mr. Ai.FR?:n Hoi.t, Jr., M.A., read a paper entitled ''The 

 action of Hydrogen on Sodium." The paper will be 



printed in the Memoirs. 



Professor E. Rutherford, F.R.S., read a paper written in 

 conjunction with Mr. Y. Tuomikoski, entitled " Differences 

 in the Decay of the Radium Emanation." The paper is 

 printed in the Memoirs. 



Ordinary Meeting, April 6th, igog. 



Mr. Francis Jones, M.Sc, F.R.S.E., Vice 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; — ^'■Report on the North- 

 avipton Miuetal Field'' (8vo., Perth, 1908), ^'Report o>i the 

 Ranoivna Mines'" (Svo., Perth, 190S), and '■^Report on the 

 Mines of the Yilgarn Goldfield'" (8vo., Perth, 190S), all three by 

 A. Montgomery, presented by the Agent General for Western 

 Kw%\.xz}i\2i; '''■ The Darivin- Wallace Celebration iiehi . . . ist/nly\ 

 jgoS^' (Svo., London, 1908), presented by the Linnean Society 

 of London ; " Physiological and Medical Observations among 

 the Indians of S. W. United States and Northern Ahxico" by 

 A. Hrdlicka (4to., Washington, 1908), presented by the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology ; " The Centenary of the Geological 

 Society of London" (8vo., London, 1909), presented by the 

 Geological Society; '■^Handbook of the Alanchester Meeting of 

 the British Association'" (i6mo., Manchester, 1887), and 

 " Excursions.^ Manchester Meetifig of the British Association " 

 (i6mo., Manchester, 1887), ^^ Nicholson's Journal" vols, i — 5 



