April 23rd, ipoi.] Proceedings. xxvii 



The following members were elected officers of the Society 

 and members of the Council for the ensuing year : — 



President : Charles Bailey, F.L.S. 



Vice-Presidents : Osborne Reynolds, M.A,, LL,D., F.R.S. ; 

 Horace Lamb, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. ; J. E. King, M.A. ; 

 C. E. Stromeyek, M.Inst.C.E. 



Secretaries: Francis Jones, F.R.S.E., F.C.S.; A. W. Flux, 

 M.A. 



Treasurer: J. J. Ashworth. 



Librarian: W. E. Hoyle, M.A., M.Sc, F.R.S.E. 



Other Members of Council: J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S 

 H. B. Dixon, M.A., F.R.S.; Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S. 

 R. L. Taylor, F.C.S., F.I.C. ; F. J. Faraday, F.L.S., F.S.S. 

 Charles H. Lees, D.Sc. 



Ordinary Meeting, April 23rd, 1901. 

 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. 



The President referred to the loss sustained by the Society 

 through the death of Professor F, M. Raoult, of Grenoble, and 

 of Professor H. A. Rowland, of Baltimore, U.S.A., two of the 

 Society's honorary members. 



Mr. F. J. Faraday called attention to the danger which may 

 arise from the fall of the counterpoise of an ordinary electric 

 lamp, owing to the fusing of the conducting (and supporting) 

 wires, due to a short circuit at the point of attachment to the 

 lamp. The probable cause of the short circuiting, and the 

 means of preventing such an accident, were discussed. 



Professor S, J. Hickson communicated two papers by 

 Miss E. M. Pratt, M.Sc, on "A Collection of Polychaeta 

 from the Falkland Islands," and "Some notes on 

 the Bipolar Theory of the Distribution of Marine 

 Organisms." 



Both papers are printed in full in the Memoirs. 



