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accessions to the Society's Library : — " Biblioiheca Chemka : a 

 Catalogue of the Alchef?iical, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical 

 Books in the Collection of the late Jaines Young, of Kelly 

 and Durris . . .", by John Ferguson, 2 vols. (4to., Glasgow, 

 1906), presented by the Trustees of Dr. J. Young; '■'■The 

 Physical Geography, Geology, Mitieralogy and Paleontology of 

 Essex County, Massachusetts, by J. H. Sears (4to., Salem., Mass., 

 1905), presented by the Essex Institute; '■'■ Catalogue of lyy 2 

 Stars, chiefly comprised within the Zotie 8f — go" N.P.D.,for the 

 Epoch igoo . . . made at the Ratcliffe Observatory, Oxford . . . 

 under the direction of A. A. Rambaut" (4to., Oxford, 1906), 

 presented by the Radcliffe Trustees ; " Neiv Reduction of 

 Groombridgi s Circumpolar Catalogue for the Epoch iSiO'O," 

 by F. W. Dyson and \V. G. Thackeray (4to., Edinburgh, 1905), 

 '■^ Telei:;raph!C Determinations of Longitude made in . . . 1888 — 

 igo2," (4to., Edinburgh, 1906), presented by the Royal 

 Observatory, Greenwich. 



Ordinary Meeting, May 8th, 1906. 

 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 

 donations to the Society's Library : — " Mans Responsibility," by 

 T. G. Carson (8vo., New York and London, 1905), presented by 

 the author; ''Collected Mathematical Works of G. JV. Hill," 

 vol. 3, (4to., Washington, 1906), presented by the author through 

 the Carnegie Institution ; and " Zelandia illustrata ..." 4^ 

 vervolg, [by] M. Fokker (Svo., Middelburg, 1905), 



Mr. Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S., presented to the Society's 

 Library a volume of scientific memoirs which had been succes- 

 sively in the possession of Dr. Dalton, F.R.S., Eaton Hodgkin- 



