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Ordinary Meeting, October 30th, 1900. 

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



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

 books upon the table. 



A paper on " The Solubility of certain Lead Glasses 

 or Fritts used in the Preparation of Pottery Glazes," 



by William Jackson, A.R.C.S., and Edmond M. Rich, B.Sc, 

 was read by the latter. 



This paper is printed in full in the Afemoirs. 



The paper was illustrated by lantern slides, and was followed 

 by a discussion, in which the Prtoident, Mr. William Burton, 

 and Mr. T. Turner (organising secretary to the Technical 

 Committee of the Staffordshire County Council) participated. 

 The last-named stated that the paper represented the first- 

 fruits of researches carried out at the laboratory at Stoke, 

 recently established by the County Council. 



Professor F. E. Weiss, B.Sc, read a paper on "The 

 Phloem of Lepidophlobs and Lepidodendron^^ which was also 

 illustrated by a series of lantern slides. 



The paper will be printed in full in the Memoirs. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 13th, 1900. 

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



Professor Osborne Reynolds mentioned a curious appear- 

 ance which he had noticed on one occasion during the past 

 summer, in the form of a narrow beam of light, proceeding vertically 

 to a height of about 30 degrees from the setting sun. The beam 

 remained visible for about half-an-hour after the sun had set. 

 In the discussion as to the cause of the phenomenon, it was 

 mentioned by Mr. Thorp that a similar appearance was seen by 

 him when crossing the Mediterranean on returning from the 

 observation of the solar eclipse in Algeria, on May 29th. 



There being no paper before the Society, Dr. C. H. Lees 



