April lotJi, ipo6.] Proceedings. xix 



Ordinary Meeting, April loth, 1906. 



Mr. Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S., Vice-President, 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: — '■'•Report oj the 

 Committee np07i Mechanical Coal-cuttino,^' pt. 2 (8vo., Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne, 1905), presented by the North of England Institute 

 of Mining and Mechanical Engineers; '' Haida Texts and 

 Myths, Skidegate Dialect" recorded by J. R. Swanton (8vo., 

 Washington, 1905), presented by the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology; " Codex Diplomaticus Lusatiae Superioris iii. . . . ", 

 Hft. I, von. Dr. R. Jecht, (8vo., Gorlitz, 1905), " Die mittel- 

 alterliche Baiihmst Batitzens" von F. Rauda (410., Gorlitz, 

 1905), presented by the Oberlausitzische Gesellschaft der 

 Wissenschaften zu Gorlitz ; " Reports of the Commission . . . 

 for the Invistigation of Mediterranean Fever" pts. 1-4 (Svo., 

 London, 1905-06), presented by the Royal Society of London; 

 " On the Flinders Petrie Papyri" by J- P. Mahaffy and 

 J. G. Smyly (Cunningham Memoirs, No. 11), (4to., Dublin, 

 1905), presented by the Royal Irish Academy; ^^ Idea dell' 

 Universo ovvero Interpretazione delta Naiura e sue Consegicenze 

 teoricke e pratichef 6\ G. C. Paoli, vol. i (Svo., Milano, 1906), 

 presented by the author ; " The Collected Mathematical Works 

 of G. W. Htll" vol. 2, (4to., Washington, 1906), presented by the 

 author through the Carnegie Institution. 



Mr. Charles Oldham read a paper entitled " Notes on 

 a Captive Mole," by Lionel E. Adams, B.A. 



At this point the Chair was occupied by Dr. W. E. Hoyle, 

 F.R.S.E., while Mr. Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S., read a paper 

 entitled " Notes on the Palaearctic Species of Coal-Tits." 



