October J I St, iQO^.'] PROCEEDINGS. iii 



General Meeting, October 31st, 1905. 



Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, D.Sc, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. Herbert J. Woodall, Associate of the Royal College 

 of Science of London, Market Place, Stockport ; Miss Mary 

 McNicoL, B.Sc, Research Scholar in the Manchester University ; 

 Miss Ethel G. Willis, B.Sc, Science Mistress, Manchester 

 High School for Girls ; Miss Edith Mary Saxelby, B.Sc, 

 Research Scholar in the Manchester University, were elected 

 ordinary members of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 31st, 1905. 



Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, D.Sc, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the table. 



Mr. F. J. Faraday, F.L.S., drew attention to a paper 

 entitled " On a Biological Aspect of Cancer," read by him in 

 1899, and printed in volume 43 of the Society's " Memoirs." 



Several of the conclusions recently arrived at by the Cancer 

 Research Committee were therein foreshadowed, e.g., that cancer 

 is not a microbic disease, but is due to an arrest of development 

 and differentiation among the somatic cells, growth being re- 

 stricted to mere gemmation. The cure consequently resolved 

 itself into finding out the nature of the change in nutrition, 

 nerve-stimulus, or environment, which might be the cause of 

 this change in the normal life-history of the somatic-cells. In 

 illustration deficient oxygenization of the blood might be hypo- 

 hetically regarded from analogy as a possible cause. 



Dr. Marie C. Stopes gave an account of some recent 

 researches into the nutrition of the egg cell in certain plants. 

 The special group of plants on which the author worked was 



