October 2nd, ipoo.] Proceedings. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 2nd, 1900. 

 Horace Lamb, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Cliair. 



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

 books upon the table. 



The nominations of the following gentlemen for membership in 

 the Society were read: — Mr. J. H. Grindley and Mr. R. S. Hutton. 



Mr. Thomas Thorp described a method of producing a 

 spectrum-like band from a bolometric curve by the use of a 

 photographic camera with cylindrical lens, and also gave a brief 

 account of the solar eclipse of May last, as seen in Algiers. 



Mr. William Burton, F.C.S., read a paper entitled 

 " Plumbism in Pottery Workers." 



The paper is prmted in full in the Memoirs. 



The paper was illustrated by a number of articles of pottery 

 and by specimens of lead fritts, and was followed by a discussion, 

 in which the President, Dr. Dixon Mann, and others participated. 



General Meeting, October i6th, 1900. 



Horace Lamb, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. H. Grindley, M.Sc, Owens College, and Mr. R. S. 

 Hutton, M.Sc, Owens College, were elected ordinary members 

 of the Society. 



