March 5th, ipoi.] PROCEEDINGS. xxi 



Ordinary Meeting, March 5th, 1901. 

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



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

 books upon the table. 



Mention was made of the fact that the Society completed 

 120 years of its existence on February 28th, and the first minute- 

 book of the Society was handed round for inspection. 



Mr. F. J. Faraday exhibited a rare volume (from the Henry 

 Watson musical library) printed at Sheffield in 1788. The work 

 consists of a description by Dibdin of a musical tour in 1787-8, 

 and extracts were read relating to the composer's experiences in 

 Manchester, contrasting the people of Manchester very unfavour- 

 ably with those of Liverpool. Messrs. Barnes, Nicholson, and 

 W. B. Faraday joined in a discussion of the matters raised. 



Mr. W. E. HovLE called the attention of the members to an 

 English Grammar published in 1801 by John Dalton, then 

 Secretary to the Society, and presented by him to the Society. 

 Mr. Hartog mentioned that Priestley also published an English 

 Grammar before devoting himself to science. 



Mr. C. E. Stromeyer referred to the results of a study of 

 tidal waves which he had published in " Nature " in 1895, and 

 which indicated that, in the majority of cases of which records 

 were available, the tidal waves appeared to proceed from the 

 Faraday Reef. Particulars of the tidal wave which recently 

 struck the " Teutonic " were not yet to hand for comparison with 

 foimer records. 



Mr. W. E. HoYLE read a paper entitled "On the Generic 

 Names Octopus, Eledone, and Histiopsis," 



The paper is printed in full in the Memoirs. 



