viii Procekdings. S^Januaty i6t/i, igo6. 



In the apparatus exhibited platinum wires were introduced 

 into the fihii in order that, after it had become black, it could 

 be conveniently thickened again so as to show the grey stage by 

 applying an electromotive force of a few volts. The motion 

 of material that is observed in the film is in the same direction 

 as the electromotive force. 



Mr. John Allan read a paper, communicated by Professor 

 E. Knecht, Ph.D., F.C.S., entitled, "On Battack Printing 

 in Java, with Notes on the Malay Kris, and the 

 Bornean Sumpitan and Upas Poison." 



Specimens of the objects described were exhibited. 



Mr. J. W. Jenkinson, M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford, read 

 a paper, communicated by Dr. F. W. Gamble, entitled 

 " Remarks on the Germinal Layers of Vertebrates 

 and on the Significance of Germinal Layers in 

 general." 



General Meeting, January 30th, 1906. 



The President, Sir Willl-^m H. Bailey, in the Chair. 



Mr. Stanley Dunkerley, D.Sc, Professor of Engineering 

 in the University of Manchester, was elected an ordinary member 

 of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, January 30th, igo6. 

 The President, Sir William H. Bailey, in the Chair. 



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

 books upon the table. The following were among the recent 

 accessions to the Society's Library : — " Bibliographical Index of 

 North Americafi Fungi" by W. (}. Farlow, vol. i, pt. i. (8vo., 



