January St/i, igoi.'\ PROCEEDINGS. ix 



Ordinary Meeting, January 8th, 1901. 



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



The th?nks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upcn the table. 



The President announced that the Council had made the 

 following awards: the Wilde medal for 1901 to Dr. Elie 

 Metchnikoff, of Paris, for his researches in comparative embryo- 

 logy, comparative anatomy, and the study of inflammation and 

 phagocytosis ; the Wilde premium to Mr. Thomas Thorp for his 

 paper on " Grating films and their application to colour photo- 

 graphy " and other communications made to the Society. The 

 Dalton medal for 1901 had not been awarded. The presentation 

 ofthe Wilde medal and premium will take place on February 5th, 

 when Dr. Metchnikoff will deliver the Wilde lecture on "La flore 

 microbienne du corps humain." 



The President also mentioned that it was proposed that 

 the members of the Society should entertain the Wilde lecturer 

 at dinner after the lecture. 



Reference was made to the loss the Society had sustained in 

 tl e death of Lord Armstrong, one of its honorary members. 



Two portraits of former members, the Rev. William Johns 

 ai.d the Rev. William Gaskell, which had been presented to the 

 Society by Dr. Schunck, were exhibited. 



With reference to the explosion of silvering solution 

 mentioned by Mr. T. Thorp at the previous meeting, Mr. R. L. 

 Taylor stated that both Berthollet and Faraday had prepared 

 an explosive compound of silver from a mixture similar to that 

 employed by Mr. Thorp for photographic purposes. 



A discussion was introduced by Mr. W. H. Johnson upon 

 the method of navigation employed by the Norsemen on their 

 voyages between Northern Europe and Greenland and Iceland 

 before the mariner's compass was known. 



Mr. W. E. HoYLE communicated a paper entitled " Note 

 on D'Orbig'ny's figure of Onychoteuthis dussumierir 



This paper is printed in full in the Memoirs. 



